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1 Cavity Induced Interfacing of Atoms and Light |
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3 | (36) |
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3 | (1) |
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1.2 Cavities for Interfacing Light and Matter |
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4 | (14) |
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1.2.1 Atom-Photon Interaction in Resonators |
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5 | (4) |
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1.2.2 Single-Photon Emission |
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9 | (9) |
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1.3 Cavity-Enhanced Atom-Photon Entanglement |
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18 | (3) |
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1.4 Photon Coherence, Amplitude and Phase Control |
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21 | (7) |
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1.4.1 Indistinguishability of Photons |
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21 | (2) |
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1.4.2 Arbitrary Shaping of Amplitude and Phase |
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23 | (5) |
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1.5 Cavity-Based Quantum Memories |
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28 | (6) |
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34 | (5) |
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35 | (4) |
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2 A Highly Efficient Single Photon-Single Quantum Dot Interface |
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39 | (36) |
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39 | (2) |
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2.2 Efficient Quantum Dot-Photon Interfacing |
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41 | (5) |
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2.2.1 Basics of Cavity-QED in a Quantum Dot-Micropillar Device |
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41 | (2) |
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2.2.2 Deterministic QD-Cavity Coupling Through In Situ Lithography |
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43 | (2) |
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2.2.3 Critical Parameters: Beyond the Purcell Factor |
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45 | (1) |
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2.3 Ultrabright Single Photon Sources |
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46 | (13) |
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2.3.1 Why Are Bright Single Photon Sources Desirable? |
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46 | (1) |
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2.3.2 Demonstration of Single Photon Sources with Record Brightness |
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47 | (2) |
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2.3.3 Purity of the Single Photon Emission |
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49 | (2) |
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2.3.4 High Indistinguishability Through a Control of the QD Environment |
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51 | (3) |
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2.3.5 Electrically Controlled Sources |
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54 | (2) |
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2.3.6 Implementation of an Entangling CNOT Gate |
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56 | (3) |
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2.4 Nonlinear Optics with Few-Photon Pulses |
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59 | (6) |
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2.4.1 Motivations: Photon Blockade and Photon Routing |
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59 | (2) |
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2.4.2 Observation of Nonlinearities at the Few-Photon Scale |
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61 | (2) |
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2.4.3 Device Optimization: Towards a Single-Photon Router? |
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63 | (1) |
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2.4.4 Resonant Excitation: Application to Fast Optical Nanosensing |
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64 | (1) |
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65 | (10) |
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67 | (8) |
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Part II Light Meets a Single Atom 3 Photon-Atom Coupling with Parabolic Mirrors |
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75 | (70) |
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Markus Sondermann and Gerd Leuchs |
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3.1 Coupling to an Atom: The Role of Dipole Radiation |
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75 | (3) |
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3.1.1 General Considerations |
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75 | (2) |
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3.1.2 Defining a Coupling Efficiency |
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77 | (1) |
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3.2 Dipole-Mode Generation with a Parabolic Mirror |
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78 | (4) |
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3.2.1 Finding the Optimum Field Mode |
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78 | (3) |
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3.2.2 Generation and Characterization of Field Modes Tailored for Efficient Free-Space Coupling |
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81 | (1) |
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3.3 Overview of Experiments on Photon-Atom Coupling in Free Space |
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82 | (5) |
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3.3.1 Shifting the Phase of a Coherent Beam |
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83 | (1) |
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3.3.2 Extinction of a Weak Coherent Beam |
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84 | (1) |
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3.3.3 Absorption of Single Photons |
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85 | (2) |
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3.4 Absorbing a Single Photon: Temporal Mode Shaping |
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87 | (3) |
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3.4.1 Choosing the Right Mode |
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87 | (1) |
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3.4.2 Generation of Exponentially Increasing Pulses |
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88 | (1) |
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3.4.3 An Analogous Experiment: Coupling to a Resonator |
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89 | (1) |
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3.5 Trapping Ions in Parabolic Mirrors |
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90 | (2) |
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3.5.1 Parabolic Mirror Ion Trap |
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90 | (2) |
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3.5.2 Fluorescence Collection |
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92 | (1) |
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3.6 Experimental Determination of the Coupling Efficiency |
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92 | (3) |
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95 | (4) |
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95 | (4) |
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4 Free Space Interference Experiments with Single Photons and Single Ions |
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99 | (26) |
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4.1 Coupling to a Single Ion in Free Space |
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100 | (11) |
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4.1.1 Electromagnetically Induced Transparency from a Single Atom in Free Space |
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101 | (7) |
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4.1.2 Single Ion as a Mirror of an Optical Cavity |
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108 | (3) |
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4.2 Probabilistic Entanglement Between Distant Ions |
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111 | (14) |
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4.2.1 Single-Photon and Two-Photon Protocols |
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111 | (3) |
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4.2.2 Generation of Entanglement by a Single Photon Detection |
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114 | (1) |
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4.2.3 Experimental Realization |
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115 | (5) |
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120 | (1) |
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121 | (4) |
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5 Single Photon Absorption by a Single Atom: From Heralded Absorption to Polarization State Mapping |
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125 | (20) |
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126 | (1) |
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5.2 Single Photon-Single Atom Interaction and Entanglement Schemes |
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127 | (3) |
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5.2.1 Single Photon Absorption Schemes |
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127 | (2) |
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5.2.2 Photon-Atom State Transfer and Entanglement Swapping Schemes |
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129 | (1) |
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130 | (2) |
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5.4 Experimental Progress |
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132 | (6) |
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5.4.1 Single Photon Absorption by a Single Ion |
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132 | (2) |
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5.4.2 Polarization Control in the Absorption Event |
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134 | (4) |
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5.4.3 Photon-to-Ion State Transfer by Heralded Absorption |
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138 | (1) |
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5.5 Conclusions and Outlook |
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138 | (7) |
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140 | (5) |
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Part III Light Meets Many Atoms |
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6 Narrowband Biphotons: Generation, Manipulation, and Applications |
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145 | (38) |
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145 | (1) |
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6.2 Monolithic Resonant Parametric Down-Conversion with Cluster Effect |
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146 | (3) |
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147 | (1) |
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6.2.2 Experimental Realization |
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148 | (1) |
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6.3 Backward-Wave Biphoton Generation |
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149 | (8) |
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6.3.1 General Formulism: Free Space |
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150 | (3) |
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6.3.2 General Formalism: Resonant SPDC |
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153 | (2) |
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155 | (1) |
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6.3.4 Experimental Challenge |
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156 | (1) |
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6.4 Spontaneous Four-Wave Mixing with Electromagnetically Induced Transparency |
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157 | (8) |
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6.4.1 Damped Rabi Oscillation Regime |
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160 | (2) |
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162 | (3) |
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6.5 Manipulation of Narrowband Single Photons |
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165 | (8) |
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173 | (6) |
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179 | (4) |
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179 | (4) |
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7 Generation, Characterization and Use of Atom-Resonant Indistinguishable Photon Pairs |
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183 | (34) |
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183 | (3) |
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184 | (1) |
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7.1.2 Atomic Frequency Filters |
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185 | (1) |
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7.2 Atom-Resonant Indistinguishable Photon Pairs in a Single Mode |
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186 | (11) |
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7.2.1 Type-I CESPDC Source |
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186 | (1) |
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7.2.2 A FADOF at the Rb D1 Line |
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187 | (3) |
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7.2.3 Spectral Purification of Degenerate Photon Pairs from Type-I CESPDC |
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190 | (3) |
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7.2.4 Interference of Biphoton Amplitudes from Distinct Sources |
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193 | (3) |
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7.2.5 Full Reconstruction of the Biphoton Wave-function |
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196 | (1) |
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7.3 Generation of Spectrally-Pure, Atom-Resonant NooN States |
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197 | (11) |
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197 | (1) |
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7.3.2 Type-II CESPDC Source |
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198 | (4) |
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7.3.3 Induced Dichroism Atomic Filter |
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202 | (1) |
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7.3.4 Spectral Purity Measurement |
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203 | (1) |
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7.3.5 Quantum-Enhanced Sensing of Atoms Using Atom-Tuned NooN States |
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204 | (4) |
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208 | (9) |
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211 | (6) |
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Part IV Storage and Retrieval of Non-classical States |
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8 On-Demand Release of a Heralded Quantum State from Concatenated Optical Cavities |
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217 | (24) |
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217 | (3) |
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220 | (2) |
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8.3 Experimental Demonstration for a Heralded Single-Photon State |
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222 | (7) |
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8.3.1 Experimental Methods |
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223 | (5) |
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8.3.2 Experimental Results |
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228 | (1) |
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229 | (12) |
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239 | (2) |
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9 Quantum Light Storage in Solid State Atomic Ensembles |
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241 | (36) |
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241 | (2) |
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9.2 Rare-Earth-Ion Doped Crystals |
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243 | (2) |
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9.3 Quantum Memory Protocols |
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245 | (4) |
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249 | (2) |
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9.5 Quantum Light Sources Compatible with Solid State Quantum Memories |
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251 | (8) |
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9.5.1 Characterizing Photon Pair Sources |
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253 | (2) |
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9.5.2 A Quantum Light Source Compatible with Nd Doped Crystals |
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255 | (2) |
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9.5.3 A Quantum Light Source Compatible with Pr Doped Crystals |
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257 | (2) |
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9.6 Quantum Light Storage Experiments |
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259 | (7) |
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9.6.1 Quantum Entanglement Storage in Nd:YSO Crystals |
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259 | (4) |
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9.6.2 Quantum Storage of Heralded Single Photon in a Pr3+:Y2SiO5 Crystal |
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263 | (3) |
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9.7 Prospects for Spin-Wave Storage with Quantum Light |
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266 | (2) |
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268 | (9) |
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268 | (9) |
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Part V New Sources of Entangled Photon Pairs |
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10 Engineering of Quantum Dot Photon Sources via Electro-elastic Fields |
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277 | (26) |
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10.1 Engineering of Quantum Dot Photon Sources via Electro-elastic Fields |
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277 | (3) |
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10.2 Hybrid Semiconductor-Piezoelectric Quantum Dot Devices: The First High-Speed, Wavelength-Tunable, and All-Electrically-Controlled Source of Single Photons |
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280 | (4) |
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10.3 Independent Control of Different Quantum Dot Parameters via Electro-elastic Fields |
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284 | (4) |
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10.3.1 Independent Control of Charge State and Emission Energy |
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284 | (2) |
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10.3.2 Independent Control of Exciton and Biexciton Energy |
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286 | (2) |
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10.4 Controlling and Erasing the Fine Structure Splitting for the Generation of Highly Entangled Photon Pairs |
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288 | (10) |
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10.4.1 Controlling and Erasing the Exciton Fine Structure Splitting via Electro-elastic Fields |
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289 | (4) |
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10.4.2 Generation of Highly Entangled Photon Pairs via Electro-elastic Tuning of Single Semiconductor QDs |
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293 | (5) |
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10.5 Conclusions and Outlook |
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298 | (5) |
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299 | (4) |
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11 Resonant Excitation and Photon Entanglement from Semiconductor Quantum Dots |
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303 | (24) |
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303 | (1) |
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11.2 On-Demand Generation of Photon Pairs Using Single Semiconductor Quantum Dots |
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304 | (9) |
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11.2.1 Quantum Dots and Polarization Entanglement |
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305 | (2) |
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11.2.2 Resonant Excitation |
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307 | (2) |
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11.2.3 Theoretical Description of the Two-Photon Excitation Process |
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309 | (4) |
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11.3 Measurements Under Resonant Excitation |
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313 | (8) |
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313 | (1) |
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11.3.2 Photon Statistics Under Resonant Excitation |
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314 | (2) |
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11.3.3 Time-Bin Entanglement |
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316 | (5) |
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321 | (6) |
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321 | (6) |
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Part VI Distinguishability of Photons |
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12 Generation and Application of Frequency-Uncorrelated Photon Pairs |
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327 | (16) |
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327 | (2) |
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12.2 Single Photon Wavepacket Generation by SPDC |
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329 | (1) |
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12.3 Group Velocity Mismatching |
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330 | (4) |
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12.4 Narrowband Entanglement Sources |
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334 | (4) |
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338 | (3) |
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341 | (2) |
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341 | (2) |
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13 Single Semiconductor Quantum Dots in Microcavities: Bright Sources of Indistinguishable Photons |
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343 | (22) |
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343 | (1) |
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13.2 A Pedestrian's Guide to Two Photon Interference |
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344 | (3) |
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13.2.1 Quantum Dot Single Photon Source |
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344 | (1) |
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13.2.2 Photon Interference with Quantum Light |
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345 | (2) |
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13.3 A Bright Quasi-planar Single Photon Source |
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347 | (2) |
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13.4 Emission of Single and Indistinguishable Photons from Single Quantum Dots |
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349 | (7) |
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13.4.1 Single Photon Emission from Single QDs |
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349 | (4) |
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13.4.2 Two Photon Interference with Single Photons |
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353 | (3) |
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13.5 Two Photon Interference from Remote, Single Quantum Dots |
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356 | (9) |
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359 | (1) |
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360 | (5) |
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14 Towards Quantum Repeaters with Solid-State Qubits: Spin-Photon Entanglement Generation Using Self-assembled Quantum Dots |
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365 | (38) |
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365 | (1) |
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366 | (14) |
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14.2.1 Motivation for Quantum Repeaters |
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367 | (6) |
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14.2.2 Design of Quantum Repeaters |
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373 | (7) |
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14.3 Quantum Dots as Building Blocks for Quantum Repeaters |
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380 | (16) |
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14.3.1 Quantum Dots as Quantum Memories |
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381 | (6) |
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14.3.2 Quantum Dots as Photon Sources |
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387 | (1) |
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14.3.3 Entanglement Between a Spin in a Quantum Dot and an Emitted Photon |
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388 | (8) |
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396 | (7) |
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398 | (5) |
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