Indistinguishable photon pair generation using two independent silicon wire waveguides

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Harada, Ken Ichi ^a,c   Takesue, Hiroki ^a,c   Fukuda, Hiroshi ^b   Tsuchizawa, Tai ^b   Watanabe, Toshifumi ^b   Yamada, Koji ^b   Tokura, Yasuhiro ^a,c   Itabashi, Sei Ichi ^b  

^a NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COINCIDENCE MEASUREMENT; FIBER ALIGNMENT; FIBER ARRAY; FIBER MODULES; GATE FREQUENCIES; GATED MODE; HIGH-SPEED; HONG-OU-MANDEL INTERFERENCES; LONG TERM STABILITY; PHOTON PAIRS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; SILICON WIRE WAVEGUIDES; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS;

FIBERS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; PHOTONS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA; WAVEGUIDES; WIRE;

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING;

EID: 79959651327     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/6/065005     Document Type: Article

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