1.5-μm band quantum-correlated photon pair generation in dispersion-shifted fiber: Suppression of noise photons by cooling fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 13, Issue 20, 2005, Pages 7832-7839

  Takesue, Hiroki ^a   Inoue, Kyo ^b  

^a Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOUR WAVE MIXING; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; RAMAN SCATTERING;

DISPERSION-SHIFTED FIBER (DSF); NOISE PHOTONS; QUANTUM CORRELATION;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 30344436388     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.13.007832     Document Type: Article

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