Heralding single photons without spectral factorability

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Huang, Yu Ping ^a   Altepeter, Joseph B ^a   Kumar, Prem ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

BROADBAND FILTERS; COHERENCE TIME; HIGH PRODUCTION RATE; HIGH PURITY; MULTIMODE ANALYSIS; SINGLE MODE; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-MODE MEASUREMENTS; TWO PHOTON STATE;

PHOTONS;

EID: 78650934173     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.82.043826     Document Type: Article

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