Generation of high-purity entangled photon pairs using silicon wire waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20368-20373

  Harada, Ken Ichi ^a,c   Takesue, Hiroki ^a,c   Fukuda, Hiroshi ^b   Tsuchizawa, Tai ^b   Watanabe, Toshifumi ^b   Yamada, Koji ^b   Tokura, Yasuhiro ^a,c   Itabashi, Sei Ichi ^b  

^a NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SILICON; WAVEGUIDES;

DISPERSION-SHIFTED FIBER; ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; ENTANGLED PHOTONS; LOW-LOSS MODES; SILICON WAVEGUIDE; SILICON WIRE WAVEGUIDES; SPONTANEOUS FOUR-WAVE MIXING; TWO-PHOTON INTERFERENCE;

PHOTONS;

NANOMATERIAL; SILICON;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; THEORETICAL MODEL; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NANOSTRUCTURES; OPTICAL DEVICES; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SILICON;

EID: 57549112387     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020368     Document Type: Article

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