From quantum pulse gate to quantum pulse shaper - Engineered frequency conversion in nonlinear optical waveguides

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 13, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Brecht, Benjamin ^a   Eckstein, Andreas ^a,b   Christ, Andreas ^a,b   Suche, Hubertus ^a   Silberhorn, Christine ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY PULSE; COMPLETE CONTROL; DIFFERENCE FREQUENCY; DISPERSION PROPERTIES; FULL CONTROL; INPUT STATE; INTEGRATED OPTICAL DEVICES; LIGHT PULSE; MULTIMODES; MULTIPLE MODES; NONLINEAR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDE; NONLINEAR WAVEGUIDES; PULSE MODES; PULSE SHAPER; QUANTUM PROCESS; QUANTUM STATE; SINGLE MODE; SOURCE ENGINEERING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL STRUCTURES; SUM FREQUENCY; ULTRA-FAST;

LIGHT; OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; WAVEGUIDES;

PULSE GENERATORS;

EID: 79960393297     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/13/6/065029     Document Type: Review

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