Efficient frequency downconversion at the single photon level from the red spectral range to the telecommunications C-band

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 12825-12836

  Zaske, Sebastian ^a   Lenhard, Andreas ^a   Becher, Christoph ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLOR CENTERS; CONVERSION EFFICIENCY; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS;

ATTENUATED LASER; CONTINUOUS LIGHT; DOWNCONVERSION; FIBER OPTIC TELECOMMUNICATIONS; LOW LOSS; NOISE PROPERTIES; OUTPUT SPECTRUM; PERIODICALLY POLED; PHOTON NUMBERS; QUANTUM INTERFACES; RIDGE WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-PHOTON LEVEL; SPECTRAL FILTERING; SPECTRAL RANGE;

TELECOMMUNICATION;

LITHIUM NIOBATE; NIOBIUM; OXIDE; ZINC;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COLOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; INSTRUMENTATION; LASER; METHODOLOGY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHOTON; QUANTUM THEORY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; TELECOMMUNICATION;

COLOR; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; LASERS; NIOBIUM; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; OXIDES; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; ZINC;

EID: 79959481041     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.012825     Document Type: Article

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