Efficiency limits for linear optical processing of single photons and single-rail qubits

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 189-197

  Berry, Dominic W ^a   Lvovsky, A I ^b   Sanders, Barry C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUMERICAL METHODS; OPTICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PHOTONS;

LINEAR OPTICAL PROCESSING; MULTIPHOTON COMPONENTS; PHOTON-COUNTING MEASUREMENTS; SINGLE PHOTONS; SINGLE-RAIL QUBITS;

OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 33947239684     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.24.000189     Document Type: Article

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