A monolithically integrated polarization entangled photon pair source on a silicon chip

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Matsuda, Nobuyuki ^a,b   Le Jeannic, Hanna ^a,c   Fukuda, Hiroshi ^b   Tsuchizawa, Tai ^b   Munro, William John ^a   Shimizu, Kaoru ^a   Yamada, Koji ^b   Tokura, Yasuhiro ^a,d   Takesue, Hiroki ^a  

^a Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c PSL RESEARCH UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

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EID: 84869186286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00817     Document Type: Article

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