Photon bunching in parametric down-conversion with continuous-wave excitation

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Blauensteiner, Bibiane ^a   Herbauts, Isabelle ^a   Bettelli, Stefano ^a   Poppe, Andreas ^b   Hübel, Hannes ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-THERMAL; COHERENCE LENGTHS; CONTINUOUS WAVES; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; DOWNCONVERSION; PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; PHOTON BUNCHING; PHOTON STATISTICS; PUMP LASER;

PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 67649883204     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.79.063846     Document Type: Article

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