Bright, single-spatial-mode source of frequency non-degenerate, polarization-entangled photon pairs using periodically poled KTP

Optics Express

Volumn 12, Issue 15, 2004, Pages 3573-3580

  Pelton, Matthew ^a   Marsden, Philip ^a   Ljunggren, Daniel ^a   Tengner, Maria ^a   Karlsson, Anders ^a   Fragemann, Anna ^a   Canalias, Carlota ^a   Laurell, Fredrik ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; OPTICAL PUMPING; PROBABILITY; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM THEORY; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

FREQUENCY NON-DEGENERATION; GAUSSIAN SPATIAL MODES; QUASIPHASE MATCHING (QPM);

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 4644290314     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OPEX.12.003573     Document Type: Article

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