Narrowband high-fidelity all-fibre source of heralded single photons at 1570 nm

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 6156-6165

  McMillan, A R ^a   Fulconis, J ^b   Halder, M ^b   Xiong, C ^a   Rarity, J G ^b   Wadsworth, W J ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

COHERENCE LENGTHS; CORRELATED PHOTON PAIRS; HERALDED SINGLE PHOTON SOURCES; HERALDED SINGLE PHOTONS; HIGH-FIDELITY; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; SINGLE PHOTON STATE; TIME BANDWIDTHS;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; QUANTUM THEORY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHTING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 65149087032     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.006156     Document Type: Article

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