Photon chopping: New way to measure the quantum state of light

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 76, Issue 14, 1996, Pages 2464-2467

  Paul, H ^a   Torma P ^b   Kiss, T ^a,c   Jex, I ^d,e  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR TECHNICAL PHYSICS AND MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Hungary)

^d CZECH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY IN PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

^e INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BALANCED 2N PORT; PHOTON CHOPPING; PHOTON NUMBER DISTRIBUTION; QUANTUM STATE OF LIGHT;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0030129734     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.76.2464     Document Type: Article

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