Heralding of telecommunication photon pairs with a superconducting single photon detector

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2006, Pages

  Jaspan, Martin A ^a   Habif, Jonathan L ^b   Hadfield, Robert H ^c   Nam, Sae Woo ^c  

^a Boston University   (United States)

^b BBN TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTON COUNTING DETECTOR TECHNOLOGY; SUPERCONDUCTING SINGLE PHOTON DETECTOR; TELECOMMUNICATION PHOTON PAIRS;

FIBER OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 33746288353     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2219411     Document Type: Article

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