High-yield single-photon source using gated spontaneous parametric downconversion

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 30, 2004, Pages 5708-5711

  Takeuchi, Shigeki ^a   Okamoto, Ryo ^a   Sasaki, Keiji ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; COHERENT LIGHT; FLUORESCENCE; LASERS; MULTIMODE FIBERS; OPTICAL COLLIMATORS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

FANO FACTOR; MICROCAVITY (MC); PARAMETRIC DOWNCONVERSION; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCES;

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 8344276776     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.005708     Document Type: Article

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