New results on single-photon up-conversion

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5551, Issue , 2004, Pages 169-176

  VanDevender, Aaron P ^a   Kwiat, Paul G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Quantum Cryptography; Quantum Information; Single Photon Detection; Up Conversion

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; INFRARED RADIATION; NEODYMIUM LASERS; NETWORK PROTOCOLS; PHOTODIODES; PHOTONS;

QUANTUM INFORMATION; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTION; SINGLE PHOTON FOCK STATE; UP CONVERSION;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 14944345328     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.564880     Document Type: Conference Paper

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