Engineered optical nonlinearity for quantum light sources

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 55-65

  Brańczyk, Agata M ^a   Fedrizzi, Alessandro ^a   Stace, Thomas M ^a   Ralph, Tim C ^a   White, Andrew G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; LIGHT; LIGHT SOURCES; NONLINEAR OPTICS; PARTICLE BEAMS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY;

GAUSSIAN NONLINEARITY; NON-LINEARITY; OPTICAL NONLINEARITY; OPTICAL QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; SINGLE PHOTONS; SPECTRAL CORRELATION; SPECTRAL SHAPING; TWO-PHOTON INTERFERENCE;

PHOTONS;

EID: 78651367794     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.000055     Document Type: Article

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