Phase-stable source of polarization-entangled photons in a linear double-pass configuration

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 11943-11951

  Steinlechner, Fabian ^a   Ramelow, Sven ^b,c   Jofre, Marc ^a   Gilaberte, Marta ^a   Jennewein, Thomas ^d   Torres, Juan P ^a,e   Mitchell, Morgan W ^a,f   Pruneri, Valerio ^a,f  

^a ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

^b ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^f INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTONS; POLARIZATION;

BI-DIRECTIONAL; BI-DIRECTIONALLY PUMPING; DETECTION RATES; DOUBLE PASS CONFIGURATION; DOWNCONVERSION; ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; PERIODICALLY POLED; POLARIZATION-ENTANGLED PHOTONS;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; LIGHT; PHOTON; REFRACTOMETRY; SOLID STATE LASER; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE; DEVICE FAILURE ANALYSIS; DEVICES;

EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; LASERS, SOLID-STATE; LIGHT; LINEAR MODELS; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SURFACE PLASMON RESONANCE;

EID: 84878593072     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.011943     Document Type: Article

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