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The Rochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics and the Quantum Information and Measurement meeting

Tunable Control of the Bandwidth and Frequency Correlations of Entangled Photons

Martin Hendrych, Juan P. Torres

Published Jan 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate experimentally a new technique to control the bandwidth and the type of frequency correlations of entangled photons. The method is based on the tunable control of the dispersive properties of all interacting waves.
DOI
10.1364/cqo.2007.csua27

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