Engineering integrated pure narrow-band photon sources

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 14, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Pomarico, E ^a   Sanguinetti, B ^a   Osorio, C I ^a   Herrmann, H ^b   Thew, R T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTERING EFFECT; CONTINUOUS-WAVE PUMPING; MODE SELECTION; MULTIPHOTONS; NARROW BANDS; NONLINEAR MATERIALS; PHOTON SOURCES; QUANTUM INFORMATION APPLICATIONS; QUANTUM NETWORK; QUANTUM SYSTEM; RESONANT MODE; SIGNAL FIELDS; SINGLE PHOTONS; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION; STANDARD DETECTORS; STATES OF LIGHT; THEORETICAL MODELS;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS; WAVEGUIDES;

INTEGRATION;

EID: 84858118129     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/14/3/033008     Document Type: Article

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