Entanglement in the above-threshold optical parametric oscillator

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 249-256

  Villar, Alessandro S ^a   Cassemiro, Katiúscia N ^a   Dechoum, Kaled ^b   Khoury, Antonio Z ^b   Martinelli, Marcelo ^a   Nussenzveig, Paulo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL PUMPING; QUADRATURE AMPLITUDE MODULATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

IDLER AMPLITUDE QUADRATURE; QUANTUM INFORMATION; SIGNAL AMPLITUDE QUADRATURE;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS;

EID: 33847738529     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.000249     Document Type: Article

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