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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

Interference of Photons from a Weak Laser and a Quantum Dot

D. A. Ritchie, Anthony J. Bennett, Raj B. Patel, Christine A. Nicoll, Andrew J. Shields

Published Mar 19, 2010• 0 citations
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Abstract

We have measured correlations between photons emitted by a weak laser and a single quantum sources with different statistics. A reduction at time zero is observed indicating photon interference, results are compared to theory. © 2009 OSA.

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