Two-photon interference of weak coherent laser pulses recalled from separate solid-state quantum memories

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Jin, Jeongwan ^a   Slater, Joshua A ^a   Saglamyurek, Erhan ^a   Sinclair, Neil ^a   George, Mathew ^b   Ricken, Raimund ^b   Oblak, Daniel ^a   Sohler, Wolfgang ^b   Tittel, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM; THULIUM;

ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY; ARTICLE; LASER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; PHOTON; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; SOLID STATE; WAVEFORM;

EID: 84955571428     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3386     Document Type: Article

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