Long-distance distribution of time-bin entanglement generated in a cooled fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 3453-3460

  Takesue, Hiroki ^a,b  

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

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; DISPERSION (WAVES); PHASE SHIFT; PHOTONS; RAMAN SCATTERING;

COOLED FIBERS; DISPERSION SHIFTED FIBERS; NOISE PHOTONS; TIME-BIN ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 33645891169     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.003453     Document Type: Article

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