Quantum interferometry using coherent beam stimulated parametric down-conversion

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 6479-6485

  Kolkiran, Aziz ^a   Agarwal, G S ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; DIFFRACTION; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

COHERENT BEAMS; PHOTON COUNTS; QUANTUM INTERFEROMETRY; STIMULATED PARAMETRIC PROCESSES;

INTERFEROMETRY;

ARTICLE; INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; PHOTON; QUANTUM THEORY;

INTERFEROMETRY; LIGHT; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 43149107172     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.006479     Document Type: Article

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