Laser written waveguide photonic quantum circuits

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 12546-12554

  Marshall, Graham D ^a   Politi, Alberto ^b   Matthews, Jonathan C F ^b   Dekker, Peter ^a   Ams, Martin ^a   Withford, Michael J ^a   O'Brien, Jeremy L ^b  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA; TIMING CIRCUITS; ULTRAFAST LASERS; WAVEGUIDE COMPONENTS; WAVEGUIDES;

FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS; LITHOGRAPHIC MASK; OPTICAL CIRCUITS; QUANTUM CIRCUIT; THREE DIMENSIONS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL NETWORKS; ULTRAFAST LASER PROCESSING; WAVEGUIDE DEVICE;

PHOTONIC DEVICES;

EID: 67749130926     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.012546     Document Type: Article

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