Four-photon correction in two-photon Bell experiments

European Physical Journal D

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 129-138

  Scarani, V ^a   De Riedmatten, H ^a   Marcikic, I ^a   Zbinden, H ^a   Gisin, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM COMMUNICATION;

CORRELATED PHOTONS; COUNT RATES; DOWNCONVERSION; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; LONG-DISTANCE CONNECTION; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; PHOTON PAIRS; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; TWO PHOTON; TWO-PHOTON INTERFERENCE;

PHOTONS;

EID: 13244299178     PISSN: 14346060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1140/epjd/e2004-00170-7     Document Type: Article

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