Bright narrowband source of photon pairs at optical telecommunication wavelengths using a type-II periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 20, 2007, Pages 12769-12776

  Fujii, Go ^a   Namekata, Naoto ^a   Motoya, Masayuki ^a   Kurimura, Sunao ^b   Inoue, Shuichiro ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LITHIUM COMPOUNDS; LUMINANCE; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; PHASE MATCHING; PHOTONS;

BRIGHT NARROWBAND SOURCE; NONLINEAR TENSOR ELEMENT; OPTICAL TELECOMMUNICATION WAVELENGTHS; PHOTON PAIRS;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 35148861017     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.012769     Document Type: Article

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