Characterizing heralded single-photon sources with imperfect measurement devices

Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Razavi, M ^a   Sollner I ^a,b   Bocquillon, E ^a,c   Couteau, C ^a   Laflamme, R ^a,d   Weihs, G ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^c ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^d PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICS   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; BLUE LASERS; COHERENCE FUNCTION; CONTINUOUS WAVES; HIGH-PRECISION; MEASUREMENT DEVICE; PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; PHOTON EMISSIONS; PPKTP CRYSTAL; PUMP POWER; SECOND-ORDER DEGREE OF COHERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON GENERATION; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; THEORETICAL RESULT; TIME RESOLUTION; TIME-AVERAGED;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; OPTOELECTRONIC DEVICES; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTODETECTORS; PUMPING (LASER); WINDOWS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 67651015213     PISSN: 09534075     EISSN: 13616455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-4075/42/11/114013     Document Type: Article

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