All-fiber photon-pair source for quantum communications: Improved generation of correlated photons

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 16, 2004, Pages 3737-3744

  Li, Xiaoying ^a   Chen, Jun ^a   Voss, Paul ^a   Sharping, Jay ^a   Kumar, Prem ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COOLING; CORRELATION METHODS; DISPERSIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICS; OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; RAMAN SCATTERING; SILICA;

PARAMETRIC PROCESSES; POLARIZERS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS; WAVELENGTH;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 4644269502     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.003737     Document Type: Article

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