Optimal coupling of entangled photons into single-mode optical fibers

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 3264-3269

  Andrews, R ^a   Pike, E R ^b   Sarkar, Sarben ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COUPLED CIRCUITS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; METHOD OF MOMENTS; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

FOCAL LENGTH; MULTIMODE THEORY; PARAMETRIC PROCESSES; SINGLE-MODE OPTICAL FIBERS;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 4644287723     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.003264     Document Type: Article

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