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Frontiers in Optics

High-efficiency single photon collection from trapped barium ions

Nathan Kurz, Gang Shu, Matthew Dietrich, B. B. Blinov

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

We have incorporated a high numerical aperture spherical mirror and aspherical corrector with a barium ion trap to improve photon collection efficiency by more than an order of magnitude for generation of ion-photon entanglement.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2009.jtub5

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