Spontaneous parametric down-conversion in waveguides: A backward Heisenberg picture approach

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2008, Pages

  Yang, Zhenshan ^a   Liscidini, Marco ^a   Sipe, J E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

QUANTUM STATE; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES;

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

EID: 40849088211     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.033808     Document Type: Article

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