Evaluation of nitrogen- and silicon-vacancy defect centres as single photon sources in quantum key distribution

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 16, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Leifgen, Matthias ^a   Schröder, Tim ^a,e   Gädeke, Friedemann ^a   Riemann, Robert ^a   Métillon, Valentin ^b   Neu, Elke ^c,f   Hepp, Christian ^c   Arend, Carsten ^c   Becher, Christoph ^c   Lauritsen, Kristian ^d   Benson, Oliver ^a  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^d PICOQUANT GMBH   (Germany)

^e Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

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EID: 84894652919     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/16/2/023021     Document Type: Article

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