Observation of 1.5 μm band entanglement using single photon detectors based on sinusoidally gated InGaAs/InP avalanche photodiodes

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Miquel, Benjamin ^a,b   Takesue, Hiroki ^a,c  

^a NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; ENTANGLEMENT MEASUREMENT; GATE FREQUENCIES; GATING TECHNIQUES; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; HIGH-SPEED; INGAAS/INP AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS;

AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; FADING (RADIO); GAS DETECTORS; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODIODES; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

PHOTONS;

EID: 66249139236     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/4/045006     Document Type: Article

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