Storage and retrieval of THZ-bandwidth single photons using a room-temperature diamond quantum memory

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2015, Pages

  England, Duncan G ^a   Fisher, Kent A G ^b   Maclean, Jean Philippe W ^b   Bustard, Philip J ^a   Lausten, Rune ^a   Resch, Kevin J ^b   Sussman, Benjamin J ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHONONS;

HERALDED PHOTONS; NONCLASSICAL PHOTON STATISTICS; OPTICAL PHONONS; PROCESSING APPLICATIONS; RAMAN TRANSITION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION; STORAGE AND RETRIEVALS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84922309614     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.114.053602     Document Type: Article

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