Entangled photon pair generation using silicon wire waveguides

IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1722-1732

  Takesue, Hiroki ^a  

^a NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

Author keywords

Entanglement; quantum communication; quantum key distribution (QKD)

Indexed keywords

BASIC THEORY; ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIR GENERATION; ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; ENTANGLED PHOTONS; ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUANTUM INFORMATION SYSTEMS; RECENT PROGRESS; SILICON CHIP; SILICON WIRE WAVEGUIDES; THIRD-ORDER NON-LINEARITY;

EXPERIMENTS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM OPTICS; WAVEGUIDES; WIRE DRAWING;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84866280391     PISSN: 1077260X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTQE.2012.2191538     Document Type: Article

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