Submicron axial resolution in an ultrabroadband two-photon interferometer using superconducting single-photon detectors

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 15104-15108

  Nasr, Magued B ^a   Minaeva, Olga ^a,b   Goltsman, Gregory N ^b   Sergienko, Alexander V ^a   Saleh, Bahaa E A ^a   Teich, Malvin C ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOSCOW STATE PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; FULL WIDTH AT HALF MAXIMUM; INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHASE MATCHING; PHOTODETECTORS; QUANTUM THEORY;

AXIAL RESOLUTIONS; NON-CLASSICAL LIGHTS; NONLINEAR GRATING; QUANTUM OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; QUASI-PHASE-MATCHED; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION; SUPERCONDUCTING SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; ULTRA-BROADBAND;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERFEROMETRY; PHOTON; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INTERFEROMETRY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS;

EID: 51849102484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.015104     Document Type: Article

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