Efficient single-spatial-mode periodically-poled KTiOPO4 waveguide source for high-dimensional entanglement-based quantum key distribution

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 24, 2012, Pages 26868-26877

  Zhong, Tian ^a   Wong, Franco N C ^a   Restelli, Alessandro ^b   Bienfang, Joshua C ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGH-DIMENSIONAL; HIGH-PURITY; KEY GENERATION; LOSSLESS; PHOTON PAIRS; SINGLE-MODE-FIBER COUPLING; SINGLE-PHOTON AVALANCHE PHOTODIODES; SPATIAL MODES; SPECTRAL FILTERING;

SINGLE MODE FIBERS; WAVEGUIDES;

WAVEGUIDE FILTERS;

PHOSPHATE; POTASSIUM TITANYLPHOSPHATE; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMAN; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TELECOMMUNICATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; PHOSPHATES; PHOTONS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; TELECOMMUNICATIONS; TITANIUM;

EID: 84870626007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.026868     Document Type: Conference Paper

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