Generation of entangled photon pairs using small-coherence-time continuous wave pump lasers

Applied Optics

Volumn 47, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 1832-1836

  Cialdi, Simone ^a   Castelli, Fabrizio ^a,b   Boscolo, Ilario ^a,b   Paris, Matteo G A ^a,b,c  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI MILANO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^c ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; PHASE MATCHING; PHOTONS; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM THEORY; SOLID STATE LASERS; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPENSATION CRYSTALS; CONTINUOUS WAVE PUMP; ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; ENTANGLEMENT PROPERTIES; FULL DENSITY MATRIX; PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; PURIFICATION PROTOCOL; QUANTUM TOMOGRAPHY;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 61849129958     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.47.001832     Document Type: Article

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