High-efficiency, ultra low-noise all-fiber photon-pair source

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 13, 2008, Pages 9966-9977

  Dyer, Shellee D ^a   Stevens, Martin J ^a   Baek, Burm ^a   Nam, Sae Woo ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; FIBERS; PHOTONS; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

GENERATION RATE; HIGH-EFFICIENCY; NOISE PHOTONS; NON-LINEAR FIBER; PHOTON PAIRS; PUMP PHOTONS; RAMAN GENERATION; ULTRA LOW NOISE;

ACCIDENTS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 46149088272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.009966     Document Type: Article

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