A versatile waveguide source of photon pairs for chip-scale quantum information processing

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 6727-6740

  Chen, Jun ^a,b   Pearlman, Aaron J ^a   Ling, Alexander ^a,b   Fan, Jingyun ^a,b   Migdall, Alan ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS; WAVEGUIDES;

ONE-PHOTON FLUORESCENCE; OPERATING PARAMETERS; OPERATING TEMPERATURE; PERIODICALLY POLED; PHOTON PAIRS; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; RELATIVE CONTRIBUTION; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; PHOTON; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; LIGHTING; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 65549095780     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.006727     Document Type: Article

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