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Spin echo with light

An optical technique that allows the coherence of electron spin inside a quantum dot to be manipulated over microsecond timescales may have important applications in quantum information processing.

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Figure 1: The experimental set-up of Press et al.

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Bayer, M. Spin echo with light. Nature Photon 4, 347–349 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2010.133

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