Biphoton radiation with hidden polarization: Experimental implementation and polarization tomography

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4750, Issue , 2002, Pages 36-46

  Bushev, P A ^a   Karassiov, V P ^a   Masalov, A V ^a   Putilin, A A ^a  

^a LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Biphoton radiation; Hidden polarization; Polarization quasiprobability functions; Polarization squeezing; Polarization tomography; Stokes operators

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; LIGHT MEASUREMENT; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; QUANTUM THEORY; VECTORS;

MULTIMODE LIGHT; POLARIZATION SQUEEZING;

TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 0036417039     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1117/12.464491     Document Type: Article

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