Manipulating single photons from disparate quantum sources to be indistinguishable [Invited]

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 319-327

  Solomon, Glenn S ^a   Flagg, Edward B ^a   Polyakov, Sergey V ^a   Thomay, Tim ^a,b   Muller, Andreas ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b The Institute for Research in Electronics and Applied Physics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COALESCENCE; INFORMATION SERVICES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

FREQUENCY MATCHING; INDISTINGUISHABILITY; NATURE OF LIGHT; PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM NETWORK; QUANTUM SYSTEM; SINGLE PHOTONS; TWO PHOTON STATE;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84857838309     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.29.000319     Document Type: Article

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