IEEE/LEOS Summer Topical Meetings

Nonlinear Photonics: Quantum State Generation and Manipulation

Alex S. Clark, Matthew J. Collins, Chad A. Husko, Trung D. Vo, Jiakun He, Shayan Shahnia, Alfredo De Rossi, Sylvain Combrié, Isabella H. Rey, Juntao Li, Thomas F. Krauss, Michael J. Steel, Chunle Xiong, Benjamin J. Eggleton

Published Jul 1, 2014• 2 citations

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Abstract

Reliable sources of photons are imperative to the development of photonic quantum technologies. I will review the use of ultra-compact slow light photonic crystal structures to create heralded single photon sources using nonlinear processes.

DOI: 10.1109/sum.2014.79

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