Generation of energy-time entangled photon pairs in 1.5-μm band with periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1679-1683

  Honjo, T ^a,c   Takesue, H ^a,c   Inoue, K ^a,b,c  

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

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE (PPLN); TWO-PHOTON INTERFERENCE;

PHOTONS;

EID: 33847188857     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.001679     Document Type: Article

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