Near-Transform-Limited Single Photons from an Efficient Solid-State Quantum Emitter

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 116, Issue 21, 2016, Pages

  Wang, Hui ^a,b,c   Duan, Z C ^a,b,c   Li, Y H ^a,b,c   Chen, Si ^a,b,c   Li, J P ^a,b,c   He, Y M ^a,d   Chen, M C ^a,b,c   He, Yu ^a,b,c   Ding, X ^a,b,c   Peng, Cheng Zhi ^a,b,c   Schneider, Christian ^d   Kamp, Martin ^d   Höfling, Sven ^a,d,e   Lu, Chao Yang ^a,b,c   Pan, Jian Wei ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^c INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; QUANTUM THEORY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

DEPHASING PROCESS; HONG-OU-MANDEL INTERFERENCES; INDISTINGUISHABILITY; MULTIPHOTON ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM EMITTERS; RESONANCE FLUORESCENCES; RESONANT EXCITATION; SINGLE QUANTUM DOT;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84971260991     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.213601     Document Type: Article

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