Ultra stable all-fiber telecom-band entangled photon-pair source for turnkey quantum communication applications

Optics Express

Volumn 14, Issue 15, 2006, Pages 6936-6941

  Liang, Chuang ^a   Lee, Kim Fook ^a   Levin, Todd ^a   Chen, Jun ^a   Kumar, Prem ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

FIBER OUTPUT; MICHELSON INTERFEROMETER CONFIGURATION; PHOTON SCATTERING; POLARIZATION ENTANGLEMENT;

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 33746372096     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.14.006936     Document Type: Article

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