High-photon-number path entanglement in the interference of spontaneously down-converted photon pairs with coherent laser light

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Hofmann, Holger F ^a   Ono, Takafumi ^a  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

COHERENT LASER LIGHT; HIGH-PHOTON-NUMBER PATH ENTANGLEMENT; PHOTON PAIRS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE;

SIGNAL INTERFERENCE;

EID: 34848894236     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.76.031806     Document Type: Article

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