Highly efficient heralding of entangled single photons

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 6707-6717

  Ramelow, Sven ^a,b   Mech, Alexandra ^a,b   Giustina, Marissa ^a,b   Gröblacher, Simon ^c,d   Wieczorek, Witlef ^d   Beyer, Jörn ^e   Lita, Adriana ^f   Calkins, Brice ^f   Gerrits, Thomas ^f   Nam, Sae Woo ^f   Zeilinger, Anton ^a,b,d   Ursin, Rupert ^a  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d University of Vienna Vienna Center for Quantum Science and Technology   (Austria)

^e PHYSIKALISCH TECHNISCHE BUNDESANSTALT   (Germany)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION;

BELL INEQUALITIES; BROAD SPECTRUM; HERALDED SINGLE PHOTONS; OPTICAL APPLICATIONS; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-PHOTON SOURCE; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; TRANSITION-EDGE SENSORS;

LIGHT;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FIBER OPTICS; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCER;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 84875726352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.006707     Document Type: Article

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