Engineering nonlinear optic sources of photonic entanglement

Progress in Optics

Volumn 56, Issue , 2011, Pages 227-331

  Torres, Juan P ^a,b   Banaszek, K ^c   Walmsley, I A ^d  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Entanglement; Four wave mixing; Nonlinear optics; Quantum enhanced technologies; Quantum optics; Spontaneous parametric down conversion

Indexed keywords

EID: 82655173247     PISSN: 00796638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53886-4.00005-8     Document Type: Chapter

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