Remotely prepared single-photon time-encoded ebits: Homodyne tomography characterization

Journal of Modern Optics

Volumn 53, Issue 16-17, 2006, Pages 2259-2270

  D'Angelo, Milena ^a   Zavatta, Alessandro ^b   Parigi, Valentina ^a   Bellini, Marco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PHOTONS; SIGNAL ENCODING; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY;

ENTANGLED BITS (EBITS); HOMODYNE TOMOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL MODES; TIME ENCODED EBITS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 33750521598     PISSN: 09500340     EISSN: 13623044     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09500340600895342     Document Type: Conference Paper

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