Improving single-photon sources via linear optics and photodetection

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2004, Pages

  Berry, Dominic W ^a   Scheel, Stefan ^b   Sanders, Barry C ^a,c   Knight, Peter L ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DENSITY (OPTICAL); INTERFEROMETERS; LIGHT SOURCES; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM THEORY; VACUUM;

LINEAR OPTICAL INTERFEROMETERS; LINEAR OPTICS; MATRIX TRANSFORMATION; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCES;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 2542431430     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.69.031806     Document Type: Article

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