Distant clock synchronization using entangled photon pairs

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 85, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 2655-2657

  Valencia, Alejandra ^a   Scarcelli, Giuliano ^a   Shih, Yanhua ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LORENTZIAN INVARIANT; NONCENTROSYMMETRIC CRYSTALS; SIGNAL-IDLER RADIATION FIELD; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION (SPDC);

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; ELECTRIC CLOCKS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FUNCTIONS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LIGHT PROPAGATION; PHOTODETECTORS; QUANTUM THEORY; SYNCHRONIZATION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 7544232708     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.1797561     Document Type: Article

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