Long-distance distribution of time-bin entangled photon pairs over 100 km using frequency up-conversion detectors

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 21, 2007, Pages 13957-13964

  Honjo, T ^a,d   Takesue, H ^a,d   Kamada, H ^a   Nishida, Y ^b   Tadanaga, O ^b   Asobe, M ^b   Inoue, K ^a,c,d  

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

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL FIBERS; WAVE INTERFERENCE; WAVEGUIDES;

IDLER PHOTONS; PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE (PPLN); PUMP LIGHT; SINGLE PHOTON DETECTORS; ULTRA LOW LOSS FILTERS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 35348970338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.013957     Document Type: Article

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