Experimental investigation of pulsed entangled photons and photonic quantum channels

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 4917, Issue , 2002, Pages 13-24

  Nambu, Yoshihiro ^a,c   Usami, Koji ^b,c   Tomita, Akihisa ^b,c   Ishizaka, Satoshi ^a,c   Hiroshima, Tohya ^a,c   Tsuda, Yoshiyuki ^c   Matsumoto, Keiji ^c   Nakamura, Kazuo ^a,b,c  

^a NEC CORPORATION   (Japan)

^b TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Characterization; Photon; Quantum channel; Quantum device; Quantum state; Tomography

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); LASER PULSES; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS; PUMPING (LASER); QUANTUM THEORY; TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

PHOTONIC QUANTUM CHANNELS; POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTER; PROCESS TOMOGRAPHY; PULSED ENTANGLED PHOTONS; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION; STATE TOMOGRAPHY;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 18744374443     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.483034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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