Narrow band source of transform-limited photon pairs via four-wave mixing in a cold atomic ensemble

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 111, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Srivathsan, Bharath ^a   Gulati, Gurpreet Kaur ^a   Chng, Brenda ^a   Maslennikov, Gleb ^a   Matsukevich, Dzmitry ^a,b   Kurtsiefer, Christian ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUCHY-SCHWARZ INEQUALITY; COUPLING EFFICIENCY; FREQUENCY BAND WIDTH; NARROW BAND SOURCES; NON-DEGENERATE FOUR WAVE MIXING; OPTICAL BAND WIDTH; SILICON AVALANCHE; STRONG CORRELATION;

ATOMS; BANDWIDTH; FOUR WAVE MIXING; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; SINGLE MODE FIBERS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84884676496     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.123602     Document Type: Article

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