Stabilization of a long-armed fiber-optic singlephoton interferometer

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 21, 2009, Pages 19027-19032

  Cho, Seok Beom ^a   Noh, Tae Gon ^a  

^a Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MULTIPLEXING; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; STABILIZATION; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

ACTIVE STABILIZATION; CONTROL TECHNIQUES; FIBER INTERFEROMETERS; MICHELSON-TYPE INTERFEROMETERS; OPTICAL PATH LENGTHS; PHASE FLUCTUATION; REAL-TIME FEEDBACK; SINGLE-PHOTON INTERFERENCE;

INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 70350340569     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.019027     Document Type: Article

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