A wavelength-tunable fiber-coupled source of narrowband entangled photons

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 23, 2007, Pages 15377-15386

  Fedrizzi, Alessandro ^a   Herbst, Thomas ^a   Poppe, Andreas ^b   Jennewein, Thomas ^a   Zeilinger, Anton ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETERS; LASER TUNING; PHOTONS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVELENGTH;

NARROWBAND ENTANGLED PHOTONS; TWO-PHOTON STATE;

FIBER OPTICS;

EID: 36248984375     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.015377     Document Type: Article

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