Highly efficient photon-pair source using periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide

Electronics Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 26-28

  Tanzilli, S ^a   De Riedmatten, H ^b   Tittel, W ^b   Zbinden, H ^b   Baldi, P ^a   De Micheli, M ^a   Ostrowsky, D B ^a   Gisin, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CÔTE D'AZUR   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM NIOBATE; OPTICAL CORRELATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; QUANTUM THEORY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SUBSTRATES; WAVEGUIDES;

PHOTON-PAIR SOURCES;

PHOTONS;

EID: 0035127994     PISSN: 00135194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1049/el:20010009     Document Type: Article

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