Bright filter-free source of indistinguishable photon pairs

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 18145-18151

  Wolfgramm, F ^a   Xing, X ^b   Cere A ^a   Predojevic A ^a   Steinberg, A M ^b   Mitchell, M W ^a  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; LUMINANCE; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHASE MATCHING; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

COINCIDENCE RATE; DOWN CONVERSION; HIGH BRIGHTNESS; HONG-OU-MANDEL INTERFERENCES; INDISTINGUISHABILITY; MODE COUPLING; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; SPECTRAL BRIGHTNESS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 55349104509     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.018145     Document Type: Article

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