Integrated optical source of polarization entangled photons at 1310 nm

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1033-1041

  Martin, A ^a   Cristofori, V ^a,c   Aboussouan, P ^a   Herrmann, H ^b   Sohler, W ^b   Ostrowsky, D B ^a   Alibart, O ^a   Tanzilli, S ^a  

^a INSTITUT NON LINÉAIRE DE NICE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; POLARIZATION; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM COMMUNICATION;

HIGH POTENTIAL; PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE; POLARIZATION ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; POLARIZATION-ENTANGLED PHOTONS; QUANTUM PROPERTIES; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS; TWO PHOTON;

PHOTONS;

EID: 58649093075     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.001033     Document Type: Article

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