Coupling Efficiencies in Single Photon On-Demand Sources

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5161, Issue , 2004, Pages 48-56

  Castelletto, Stefania ^a   Degiovanni, I P ^a   Ware, Michael ^b   Migdall, Alan ^b  

^a ISTITUTO ELETTROTECNICO NAZIONALE GALILEO FERRARIS   (Italy)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MOLECULAR CRYSTALS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM THEORY;

COUPLING EFFICIENCIES; SINGLE PHOTONS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 1842690077     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.504773     Document Type: Conference Paper

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