Generation of pulsed polarization-entangled photon pairs in a 1,55-μm band with a periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide and an orthogonal polarization delay circuit

Optics Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 293-295

  Takesue, Hiroki ^a   Inoue, Kyo ^a   Tadanaga, Osamu ^b   Nishida, Yoshiki ^b   Asobe, Masaki ^b  

^a Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PULSED POLARIZATION; QUARTER-WAVE PLATES (QWP); TELECOM BANDS;

BAND STRUCTURE; DELAY CIRCUITS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LITHIUM NIOBATE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

PHOTONS;

EID: 13244275204     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.30.000293     Document Type: Article

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