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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Solid-state source of single photons for quantum cryptography and student-labs

Chunlang Wang, Christoph Braig, Patrick Zarda, Harald Weinfurter, Christian Kurtsiefer

Published Jan 1, 2004• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report on the experimental investigation of fluorescence obtained from single N-V or Si-V centers in diamond. The simple set-up is well suited for quantum cryptography applications as well as for advanced student-labs.
DOI
10.1364/iqec.2004.iwe2

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