Broadband single-photon-level memory in a hollow-core photonic crystal fibre

Nature Photonics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 287-291

  Sprague, M R ^a   Michelberger, P S ^a   Champion, T F M ^a   England, D G ^a,d   Nunn, J ^a   Jin, X M ^a,b   Kolthammer, W S ^a   Abdolvand, A ^c   Russell, P St J ^c   Walmsley, I A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^d NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SERVICES; PARTICLE BEAMS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ALL-OPTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; EFFICIENT INTERACTION; HOLLOW-CORE PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBRE; HYPERFINE COHERENCES; LIGHT-MATTER INTERACTIONS; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; SINGLE-PHOTON LEVEL;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 84897374161     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2014.45     Document Type: Article

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