Entangled photon generation using four-wave mixing in azimuthally symmetric microresonators

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 21977-21991

  Camacho, Ryan M ^a  

^a SANDIA NATIONAL LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION; FOUR WAVE MIXING; GROUP VELOCITY DISPERSION; QUANTUM THEORY;

CHIP-SCALE; CONSERVE ENERGY; DISPERSION PROFILE; ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; ENTANGLED PHOTONS; GROUP VELOCITIES; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; MICRO RESONATORS; NARROW BANDS; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; QUANTUM MECHANICAL; RING RESONATOR; SPECTRAL REGION; SYMMETRIC SYSTEMS;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELECTRONICS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; LIGHT; PHOTON; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MINIATURIZATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84866702660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.021977     Document Type: Article

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