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Transverse Properties of Entangled Two-photon States Generated in Nonlinear Photonic-band-gap Structures

Jan Peřina, Marco Centini, Concita Sibilia, M. Bertolotti, Michael Scalora

Published Jan 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

Transverse characteristics (intensity profiles, correlation area) of the spontaneously generated down-converted fields have been studied for structures composed of up to several tens of thin GaN/AlN layers using a vectorial quantum model.
DOI
10.1364/cqo.2007.csua6

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