Heralded, pure-state single-photon source based on a potassium titanyl phosphate waveguide

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 3708-3718

  Levine, Z H ^a   Fan, J ^a,b   Chen, J ^a,b   Ling, A ^a,b   Migdall, A ^a,b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; PARTICLE BEAMS; POTASSIUM; WAVEGUIDES;

EXPERIMENTAL PARAMETERS; PHOTON PAIRS; POTASSIUM TITANYL PHOSPHATE; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; SPATIAL MODES; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; TYPE II;

PHOTONS;

PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM TITANYLPHOSPHATE; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PHOSPHATES; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; TITANIUM;

EID: 77149123623     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.003708     Document Type: Article

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