Near-optimal single-photon sources in the solid state

Nature Photonics

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 340-345

  Somaschi, N ^a   Giesz, V ^a   De Santis, L ^a   Loredo, J C ^b   Almeida, M P ^b   Hornecker, G ^c,d   Portalupi, S L ^a   Grange, T ^c,d   Anton C ^a   Demory, J ^a   Gomez C ^a   Sagnes, I ^a   Lanzillotti Kimura, N D ^a   Lemaitre A ^a   Auffeves, A ^c,d   White, A G ^b   Lanco, L ^a,e   Senellart, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DE CRISTALLOGRAPHIE   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; LUMINANCE; NANOCRYSTALS; PARTICLE BEAMS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

FABRICATED STRUCTURES; INDISTINGUISHABILITY; PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; PHOTON EXTRACTIONS; PHOTONIC STRUCTURE; QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES; RESONANT EXCITATION; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84960194607     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2016.23     Document Type: Article

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