Pulsed Sagnac polarization-entangled photon source with a PPKTP crystal at telecom wavelength

Optics Express

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 11498-11507

  Jin, Rui Bo ^a   Shimizu, Ryosuke ^b   Wakui, Kentaro ^a   Fujiwara, Mikio ^a   Yamashita, Taro ^a   Miki, Shigehito ^a   Terai, Hirotaka ^a   Wang, Zhen ^a,c   Sasaki, Masahide ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRO COMMUNICATIONS   (Japan)

^c SHANGHAI INSTITUTE OF MICROSYSTEM AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBER OPTIC SENSORS; NANOWIRES; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DETECTION EFFICIENCY; PERIODICALLY POLED; POLARIZATION-ENTANGLED PHOTONS; PPKTP CRYSTAL; SAGNAC INTERFEROMETER; SPECTRAL PURITY; SUPERCONDUCTING NANOWIRE SINGLE PHOTON DETECTORS; TELECOM WAVELENGTHS;

WAVELENGTH;

EID: 84901255138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.011498     Document Type: Article

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