Observation of non-diffracting behavior at the single-photon level

Optics Express

Volumn 20, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 29761-29768

  Cruz Raḿirez, Hector ^a   Raḿirez Alarcon, Roberto ^a,b   Morelos, Francisco J ^a   Quinto Su, Pedro A ^a   Gutierrez Vega, Julio C ^c   U'Ren, Alfred B ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GUANAJUATO   (Mexico)

^c SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING AND SCIENCES   (Mexico)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; PHOTONS;

IDLER PHOTONS; INTENSITY DISTRIBUTION; NONDIFFRACTING; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-PHOTON LEVEL; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 84872015251     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.20.029761     Document Type: Article

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