A quantum pulse gate based on spectrally engineered sum frequency generation

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 15, 2011, Pages 13770-13778

  Eckstein, Andreas ^a   Brecht, Benjamin ^b   Silberhorn, Christine ^b  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; QUANTUM OPTICS;

HIGH FIDELITY; INTERCONVERSIONS; MODE STRUCTURE; MULTIMODES; PPLN WAVEGUIDES; PULSE-SHAPING; PUMP BEAMS; QUANTUM STATE; QUANTUM-INFORMATION PROCESSING; SUM FREQUENCY GENERATION; ULTRA-FAST;

OPTICAL PUMPING;

EID: 79960503054     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.013770     Document Type: Article

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