On-chip low loss heralded source of pure single photons

Optics Express

Volumn 21, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 13522-13532

  Spring, Justin B ^a   Salter, Patrick S ^a   Metcalf, Benjamin J ^a   Humphreys, Peter C ^a   Moore, Merritt ^a   Thomas Peter, Nicholas ^a   Barbieri, Marco ^a   Jin, Xian Min ^a,b   Langford, Nathan K ^a,c   Kolthammer, W Steven ^a   Booth, Martin J ^a,d   Walmsley, Ian A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b SHANGHAI JIAO TONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FIBER COUPLING; PARTICLE BEAMS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; SILICA;

DETECTOR PERFORMANCE; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; EFFICIENT COUPLING; EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS; HERALDED SINGLE PHOTONS; OPTICS APPLICATION; SPECTRAL INTENSITY; SPONTANEOUS FOUR-WAVE MIXING;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84878866671     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.21.013522     Document Type: Article

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