Photon subtracted squeezed states generated with periodically poled KTiOPO4

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 3568-3574

  Wakui, Kentaro ^a   Takahashi, Hiroki ^b   Furusawa, Akira ^b   Sasaki, Masahide ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; PHOTONS;

SINGLE-PHOTON STATE; SUPERPOSITION STATES; WIGNER FUNCTION;

PERIODIC STRUCTURES;

EID: 33947397583     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.003568     Document Type: Article

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