On-demand generation of indistinguishable polarization-entangled photon pairs

Nature Photonics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 224-228

  Muller M ^a   Bounouar, S ^a   Jons K D ^a   Glassl M ^b   Michler, P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BAYREUTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF ENTANGLEMENT; ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; EXCITON FINE STRUCTURE; OPTICAL QUANTUM COMPUTING; PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; POLARIZATION-ENTANGLED PHOTONS; QUANTUM INFORMATION APPLICATIONS; TWO-PHOTON INTERFERENCE;

POLARIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEMICONDUCTOR QUANTUM DOTS;

PHOTONS;

EID: 84897642708     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.377     Document Type: Article

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