Distribution of polarization-entangled photon-pairs produced via spontaneous parametric down-conversion within a local-area fiber network: Theoretical model and experiment

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 19, 2008, Pages 14512-14523

  Lim, Han Chuen ^a,b   Yoshizawa, Akio ^b,c   Tsuchida, Hidemi ^b,c   Kikuchi, Kazuro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBERS; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; VISIBILITY;

ENTANGLEMENT FIDELITY; FIBER NETWORKS; PHOTON PAIR GENERATIONS; POLARIZATION ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; SERVICE PROVIDER; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION; THEORETICAL MODELING; TWO-PHOTON INTERFERENCE;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER NETWORK; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER COMMUNICATION NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 52049112515     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.014512     Document Type: Article

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