Online ISSN:1349-8606
Progress in Informatics  
No.8 March 2011  
Page 19-26  
 
Photon pair sources with controlled frequency correlation
Keiichi EDAMATSU, Ryosuke SHIMIZU, Wakana UENO, Rui-Bo JIN, Fumihiro KANEDA, Masahiro YABUNO, Hirofumi SUZUKI, Shigehiro NAGANO, Atsushi SYOUJI and Koji SUIZU

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