Direct generation of photon triplets using cascaded photon-pair sources

Nature

Volumn 466, Issue 7306, 2010, Pages 601-603

  Hübel, Hannes ^a   Hamel, Deny R ^a   Fedrizzi, Alessandro ^b   Ramelow, Sven ^c,d   Resch, Kevin J ^a   Jennewein, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

LASER METHOD; OPTICAL INSTRUMENT; OPTICAL METHOD; QUANTUM MECHANICS; TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; WAVELENGTH;

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HISTOGRAM; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT;

EID: 77955139820     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature09175     Document Type: Article

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