Intrinsically narrowband pair photon generation in microstructured fibres

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Clark, Alex ^a   Bell, Bryn ^a   Fulconis, Jérémie ^a   Halder, Matthäus M ^a   Cemlyn, Ben ^a   Alibart, Olivier ^b   Xiong, Chunle ^c   Wadsworth, William J ^c   Rarity, John G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION EFFICIENCY; HIGH FIDELITY; HONG-OU-MANDEL INTERFERENCES; MICROSTRUCTURED FIBRE; NARROW BANDS; NON-CLASSICAL INTERFERENCE; PHOTON GENERATION; SPECTRAL FILTERING; SPECTRAL PROPERTIES;

FOUR WAVE MIXING; PHOTONIC CRYSTALS; PHOTONS; VISIBILITY;

PHOTONIC CRYSTAL FIBERS;

EID: 79959681491     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/6/065009     Document Type: Article

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