Highly indistinguishable heralded single-photon sources using parametric down conversion

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2012, Pages 15275-15285

  Tanida, Masato ^a,b   Okamoto, Ryo ^a,b   Takeuchi, Shigeki ^a,b  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BARIUM; ELEMENTARY PARTICLE SOURCES; FIBER OPTICS; VISIBILITY;

BETA-BARIUM-BORATE CRYSTALS; DOWN CONVERSION; HONG-OU-MANDEL INTERFERENCES; INTERFERENCE VISIBILITY; NONLINEAR CRYSTALS; PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; THEORETICAL MODELS;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 84863768954     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.015275     Document Type: Article

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