Controllable entanglement and polarization phase gate in coupled double quantum-well structures

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 22, 2008, Pages 17161-17170

  Yang, Wen Xing ^a,b   Lee, Ray Kuang ^a  

^a NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NONLINEAR OPTICS; PHASE MODULATION; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM OPTICS;

CROSS PHASE MODULATION; DOUBLE QUANTUM WELL STRUCTURES; INTERSUBBAND TRANSITIONS; NONLINEAR OPTICAL RESPONSE; PHOTON ENTANGLEMENT; POLARIZATION PHASE; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM POLARIZATION;

SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM WELLS;

EID: 55549100298     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.017161     Document Type: Article

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