Generation of time-bin-entangled photons without temporal postselection

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 78, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Rossi, Alessandro ^a   Vallone, Giuseppe ^a   De Martini, Francesco ^a   Mataloni, Paolo ^a  

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS;

AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); COHERENCE TIME; DEGREE OF FREEDOM (DOF); ENTANGLED PHOTONS; PHOTON PAIRS;

POWER GENERATION;

EID: 48049117977     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.78.012345     Document Type: Article

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