Producing high fidelity single photons with optimal brightness via waveguided parametric down-conversion

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 25, 2009, Pages 22823-22837

  Laiho, K ^a   Cassemiro, K N ^a   Silberhorn, Ch ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS;

MOMENTUM CONSERVATIONS; NON-GAUSSIAN STATE; PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION; PHOTON NUMBER RESOLVING; PHOTON-NUMBER CORRELATIONS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; SINGLE PHOTON FOCK STATE; SPECTRAL FILTERING;

WAVEGUIDE FILTERS;

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

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

EID: 72149115688     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.022823     Document Type: Article

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