Squeezed state generation in photonic crystal microcavities

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 25, 2008, Pages 20908-20919

  Banaee, M G ^a   Young, Jeff F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MICROCAVITIES; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SHOT NOISE; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; WAVEGUIDES;

CORRELATION FUNCTION; EXCITATION PULSE; FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN SIMULATIONS; PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION PROCESS; PHOTONIC CRYSTAL MICROCAVITIES; QUANTUM MECHANICAL FORMALISM; SINGLE MODE WAVEGUIDES; THREE DIMENSIONAL PHOTONIC CRYSTALS;

FINITE DIFFERENCE TIME DOMAIN METHOD;

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

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

EID: 57549116201     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.020908     Document Type: Article

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