Hong-Ou-Mandel interference mediated by the magnetic plasmon waves in a three-dimensional optical metamaterial

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 5213-5218

  Wang, S M ^a   Mu, S Y ^a   Zhu, C ^a   Gong, Y X ^a   Xu, P ^a   Liu, H ^a   Li, T ^a   Zhu, S N ^a   Zhang, X ^b  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

METAMATERIALS; OPTICAL MATERIALS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE PHENOMENA; QUANTUM OPTICS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

HONG-OU-MANDEL INTERFERENCES; NON-CLASSICAL LIGHTS; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE; QUANTUM MODELS; QUANTUM NATURE; QUANTUM PROPERTIES; TWO-PHOTON INTERFERENCE;

PLASMONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELD; MATERIALS; METHODOLOGY; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS; MANUFACTURED MATERIALS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84857617956     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.005213     Document Type: Article

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