Generation of nonclassical states from thermal radiation

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6305, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Parigi, Valentina ^a   Zavatta, Alessandro ^b   Bellini, Marco ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Entanglement; Nonclassical quantum states; Quantum homodyne tomography; Single photon fock states; Thermal light

Indexed keywords

DENSITY MEASUREMENT (OPTICAL); HEAT RADIATION; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

NONCLASSICAL QUANTUM STATES; QUANTUM HOMODYNE TOMOGRAPHY; SINGLE-PHOTON FOCK STATES; THERMAL LIGHT;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 33750600328     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.680505     Document Type: Conference Paper

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