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Nature Physics 5, 203–207 (1 March 2009) | doi:10.1038/nphys1184

Resonantly driven coherent oscillations in a solid-state quantum emitter

E. B. Flagg , A. Muller , J. W. Robertson , S. Founta , D. G. Deppe , M. Xiao , W. Ma , G. J. Salamo & C. K. Shih

Single-quantum emitters emit only one photon at a time, but the properties of the photon depend on how the emitter is excited. Incoherent excitation is simple and broadly used with solid-state emitters such as quantum dots, but does not allow direct manipulation of the quantum state.