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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Time-Resolved Nonclassical Photon Field Characterization

Sergey V. Polyakov, Edward B. Flagg, Tim O. Thomay, Alan L. Migdall, Glenn S. Solomon

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate a new method to characterize nonclassical states that measures the temporal dependence of their statistical and coherent properties. We extract information about underlying physical processes in an InAs quantum dot in situ.
DOI
10.1364/qels.2012.qtu1e.7

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