High-brightness, low-noise, all-fiber photon pair source

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 10290-10297

  Dyer, Shellee D ^a   Baek, Burm ^a   Nam, Sae Woo ^a  

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; FIBERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; PARTICLE BEAMS;

DISPERSION SHIFTED FIBERS; GENERATION RATE; HIGH BRIGHTNESS; NOISE PHOTONS; PHOTON PAIRS; RAMAN GENERATION; SPONTANEOUS FOUR-WAVE MIXING; SUPERCONDUCTING SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELECOMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LIGHTING; PHOTONS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TELECOMMUNICATIONS;

EID: 66849084083     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.010290     Document Type: Article

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