Characterization of fiber-generated entangled photon pairs with superconducting single-photon detectors

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1322-1327

  Liang, Chuang ^a   Lee, Kim Fook ^a   Medic, Milja ^a   Kumar, Prem ^a   Hadfield, Robert H ^b   Nam, Sae Woo ^b  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SUPERCONDUCTING DEVICES; WAVE INTERFERENCE;

FRINGE VISIBILITY; PHOTON INTERFERENCE; QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS; SUPERCONDUCTING SINGLE PHOTON DETECTORS;

PHOTODETECTORS;

EID: 33846864915     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.001322     Document Type: Article

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