On-chip steering of entangled photons in nonlinear photonic crystals

Nature Communications

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Leng, H Y ^a   Yu, X Q ^a,b   Gong, Y X ^a   Xu, P ^a   Xie, Z D ^a   Jin, H ^a   Zhang, C ^a   Zhu, S N ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM DERIVATIVE; TANTALUM;

ARTICLE; CONTROL SYSTEM; CRYSTAL; NONLINEAR PHOTONIC CRYSTAL; OPTICS; PHOTON; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SIMULATION;

EID: 80052420639     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1439     Document Type: Article

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