Reducing multi-photon rates in pulsed down-conversion by temporal multiplexing

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 23, 2011, Pages 22698-22708

  Broome, M A ^a   Almeida, M P ^a   Fedrizzi, A ^a   White, A G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL PUMPING; PULSE REPETITION RATE; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT; ULTRAFAST LASERS;

DOWNCONVERSION; EMISSION RATES; ENTANGLED STATE; HIGHER ORDER; MODE-LOCKED; MULTIPHOTONS; NON-CLASSICAL INTERFERENCE; PUMP BEAMS; QUANTUM GATES; REPETITION RATE; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; TEMPORAL MULTIPLEXING;

PHOTONS;

EID: 80755127003     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.022698     Document Type: Article

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