Stokes-operator-squeezed continuous-variable polarization states

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Schnabel, Roman ^a,b   Bowen, Warwick P ^a   Treps, Nicolas ^a   Ralph, Timothy C ^c   Bachor, Hans A ^a   Lam, Ping Koy ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN INSTITUT   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; CONTINUOUS WAVE LASERS; ELECTROMAGNETIC FIELD EFFECTS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

CONTINUOUS VARIABLE POLARIZATION STATES; LASER LIGHT GENERATION; POLARIZATION SQUEEZED STATES; STOKES OPERATOR;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0037244615     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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