Optical telecom networks as weak quantum measurements with postselection

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 91, Issue 18, 2003, Pages

  Brunner, Nicolas ^a   Acín, Antonio ^a   Collins, Daniel ^a   Gisin, Nicolas ^a   Scarani, Valerio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISPERSION (WAVES); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FIBER OPTICS; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; LIGHT POLARIZATION; LIGHT SCATTERING; PROBABILITY; TELECOMMUNICATION NETWORKS; WAVELENGTH DIVISION MULTIPLEXING;

POLARIZATION-DEPENDENT LOSSES (PDL); POLARIZATION-MODE DISPERSION (PMD); POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0347591294     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.91.180402     Document Type: Article

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