Photon pair-state preparation with tailored spectral properties by spontaneous four-wave mixing in photonic-crystal fiber

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 22, 2007, Pages 14870-14886

  Garay Palmett, K ^a   McGuinness, H J ^b   Cohen, Offir ^c   Lundeen, J S ^c   Rangel Rojo, R ^a   U'Ren, A B ^a   Raymer, M G ^b   McKinstrie, C J ^d   Radie, S ^e   Walmsley, I A ^c  

^a CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN CIENTÍFICA Y DE EDUCACIÓN SUPERIOR DE ENSENADA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^d LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; OPTICAL CORRELATION; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

SPECTRAL POST FILTERING; SPONTANEOUS FOUR-WAVE MIXING (SFWM);

OPTICAL FIBERS;

EID: 35948976225     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.014870     Document Type: Article

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