Designing a special light source with pre-determined number of photons

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5161, Issue , 2004, Pages 352-357

  Oszetzky, Dániel ^a   Czitrovszky, Aladár ^a   Sergienko, Alexander ^b  

^a WIGNER RESEARCH CENTRE FOR PHYSICS   (Hungary)

^b Boston University   (United States)

Author keywords

Coincidence; Constant fraction discriminator; Counting efficiency; Entanglement; Jitter; Light detection; Light source; Optical parametric down conversion; Photodetectors; Photon counting; Photon rate; Quantum efficiency; Triggering

Indexed keywords

JITTER; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOMETRY; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY;

COUNTING EFFICIENCY; PHOTON COUNTING;

LIGHT SOURCES;

EID: 1842740214     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.506697     Document Type: Conference Paper

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