Source of polarization entanglement in a single periodically poled KTiOPO4 crystal with overlapping emission cones

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 127-135

  Fiorentino, Marco ^a   Kuklewicz, Christopher E ^a   Wong, Franco N C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BARIUM COMPOUNDS; BIREFRINGENCE; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; SINGLE CRYSTALS;

IDLER PHOTONS; PARAMETRIC PROCESSES; POLARIZATION ENTANGLEMENT; QUASI-PHASE MATCHING (QPM);

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 13644257917     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.000127     Document Type: Article

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