Preparation and storage of frequency-uncorrelated entangled photons from cavity-enhanced spontaneous parametric downconversion

Nature Photonics

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 628-632

  Zhang, Han ^a   Jin, Xian Min ^a   Yang, Jian ^a   Dai, Han Ning ^a   Yang, Sheng Jun ^a   Zhao, Tian Ming ^a   Rui, Jun ^a   He, Yu ^a   Jiang, Xiao ^a   Yang, Fan ^b   Pan, Ge Sheng ^a   Yuan, Zhen Sheng ^a   Deng, Youjin ^a   Chen, Zeng Bing ^a   Bao, Xiao Hui ^a   Chen, Shuai ^a   Zhao, Bo ^c   Pan, Jian Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

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EID: 80053569933     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2011.213     Document Type: Article

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