Quantum channel using photon number correlated twin beams

Optics Express

Volumn 11, Issue 26, 2003, Pages 3592-3597

  Zhang, Yun ^a   Kasai, Katsuyuki ^a   Hayasaka, Kazuhiro ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; PHOTONS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

PHOTON STATISTICS; SIGNAL FLUCTUATIONS; SIGNAL RELAXATIONS; SQUEEZED STATES;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 2942705837     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.11.003592     Document Type: Article

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