Mode expansion and bragg filtering for a high-fidelity fiber-based photon-pair source

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 23, 2009, Pages 21302-21312

  Ling, Alexander ^a   Chen, Jun ^b   Fan, Jingyun ^b   Migdall, Alan ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM THEORY; TEXTILE FIBERS;

BRAGG FILTERS; ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; HIGH-FIDELITY; MODE EXPANSION; QUANTUM STATE TOMOGRAPHY; SECOND-ORDER CORRELATION FUNCTIONS; SPATIAL MODES; SPECTRAL BRIGHTNESS;

PHOTONS;

BRIGHTNESS; CORRELATION; TEXTILE FIBERS;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; OPTICS; PHOTON; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION SCATTERING; TEMPERATURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 70749119451     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.021302     Document Type: Article

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