Three-photon NOON states generated by photon subtraction from double photon pairs

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 22, 2009, Pages 19720-19726

  Kim, Heonoh ^a   Park, Hee Su ^a   Choi, Sang Kyung ^a  

^a Korea Research Institute of Standards and Science   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION; DE BROGLIE WAVELENGTH; ENTANGLED STATE; EXPERIMENTAL DEMONSTRATIONS; INTERFERENCE FRINGE; PHOTON SUBTRACTIONS; SINGLE SOURCE; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 70749150470     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.019720     Document Type: Article

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