Real-time phase tracking in single-photon interferometers

Applied Optics

Volumn 43, Issue 22, 2004, Pages 4385-4392

  Makarov, Vadim ^a   Brylevski, Alexei ^b   Hjelme, Dag R ^a  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b PETER THE GREAT ST PETERSBURG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; FARADAY EFFECT; HARDWARE; INTERFEROMETERS; PARTICLE BEAM TRACKING; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; THERMOELECTRICITY;

INTERFERROMETRIC SYSTEMS; MONOLITHIC CONSTRUCTION; PHASE TRACKING; QUANTUM KEY DISTRIBUTION (QKD);

QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY;

EID: 4043164377     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.43.004385     Document Type: Article

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