Waveguide-based OPO source of entangled photon pairs

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Pomaríco, Enrico ^a   Sangulnettl, Bruno ^a   Gisin, Nicolas ^a   Thew, Robert ^a   Zbinden, Hugo ^a   Schreiber, Gerhard ^b   Thomas, Abu ^b   Sohler, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENCE TIME; COMPACT SOURCES; ENERGY-TIME; ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; ENTANGLED STATE; HIGH QUALITY; LONG DISTANCE TRANSMISSION; MULTI-LAYER MIRRORS; NARROW BANDS; PERIODICALLY POLED LITHIUM NIOBATE; PHOTON PAIRS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; TELECOM; TIME CORRELATIONS; WAVEGUIDE RESONATORS;

LIGHT SOURCES; NIOBIUM COMPOUNDS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; WAVEGUIDES;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 72049117926     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/11/11/113042     Document Type: Article

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