Slow light enhanced correlated photon pair generation in photonic-crystal coupled-resonator optical waveguides

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 8596-8604

  Matsuda, Nobuyuki ^a,b   Takesue, Hiroki ^a   Shimizu, Kaoru ^a   Tokura, Yasuhiro ^a,c   Kuramochi, Eiichi ^a,b   Notomi, Masaya ^a,b  

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

^b NTT CORPORATION   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES;

CORRELATED PHOTON PAIRS; COUPLED-RESONATOR OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; GENERATION RATE; LINE DEFECT WAVEGUIDE; ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE; PHOTON PAIRS; SPONTANEOUS FOUR-WAVE MIXING; SUPERMODES;

PHOTONS;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; QUANTUM THEORY; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRYSTALLIZATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84875981708     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.008596     Document Type: Article

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