Coherence measures for heralded single-photon sources

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2009, Pages

  Bocquillon, E ^a,b   Couteau, C ^a   Razavi, M ^a   Laflamme, R ^a,c   Weihs, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; PHOTONS;

COHERENCE PROPERTIES; CONTINUOUS WAVES; MINIMUM VALUES; PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSIONS; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; SECOND-ORDER COHERENCES; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCES; TIME RESOLUTIONS; TIME-AVERAGED;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 63649138744     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.035801     Document Type: Article

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