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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Implementations of atom-photon interfaces for quantum networking

Peter Nisbet, Jerome Dilley, Gunnar Langfahl-Klabes, Daniel Ljunggren, G. Vasilev, Axel Kuhn

Published Jun 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

The work aims to build on photon sources for implementing the quantum memories and state mapping schemes required in a quantum network. Two types of atom-photon interfaces are studied.
DOI
10.1109/cleoe-eqec.2009.5192761

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