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Photon Pair Generation via Four-Wave Mixing in Photonic Crystal Fibres

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Active Multiplexing of Spectrally Engineered Heralded Single Photons in an Integrated Fibre Architecture

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The four-wave mixing process is well known in classical non-linear optics but has also been studied extensively within the framework of quantum theory, due to its usefulness as a source of heralded single photons.

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Francis-Jones, R.J.A. (2017). Photon Pair Generation via Four-Wave Mixing in Photonic Crystal Fibres. In: Active Multiplexing of Spectrally Engineered Heralded Single Photons in an Integrated Fibre Architecture. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64188-1_2

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