High performance photon-pair source based on a fiber-coupled periodically poled KTiOPO4 waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 12019-12030

  Zhong, Tian ^a   Wong, Franco N C ^a   Roberts, Tony D ^b   Battle, Philip ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b AdvR Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

(190.4410) Nonlinear optics, parametric processes; (270.5290) Photon statistics; (270.5585) Quantum information and processing

Indexed keywords

PHASE MATCHING; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; WAVEGUIDES;

INTEGRATED WAVEGUIDES; PAIR PRODUCTION; PARAMETRIC PROCESS; PERIODICALLY POLED; PHOTON STATISTICS; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; THEORETICAL MODELING;

NONLINEAR OPTICS;

EID: 67650538938     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012019     Document Type: Article

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