Two-photon interference with a semiconductor integrated source at room temperature

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 9967-9975

  Caillet, X ^a   Orieux, A ^a   Lemaitre A ^b   Filloux, P ^a   Favero, I ^a   Leo, G ^a   Ducci, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ D'ANGERS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES;

COUNTERPROPAGATING; INTEGRATED SOURCES; PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION; PHOTON PAIRS; PUMP PHOTONS; QUANTUM DEVICE; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPECTRAL LINE WIDTH; TELECOM; TWIN PHOTONS; TWO-PHOTON INTERFERENCE; TYPE II;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; ILLUMINATION; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHTING; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SEMICONDUCTORS; SYSTEMS INTEGRATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 77952707570     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.009967     Document Type: Article

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