Temporally multiplexed superposition states of continuous variables

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Sasaki, Masahide ^a,b   Takeoka, Masahiro ^a,b   Takahashi, Hiroki ^a,b,c  

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

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ISOMERS; LIGHT SOURCES; LIGHTING; MULTIPLEXING; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS; SEPARATION;

(PL) PROPERTIES; AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY (APS); COHERENCE TIME; CONTINUOUS VARIABLES; CONTINUOUS WAVE (C.W.); NON GAUSSIAN STATES; SQUEEZED LIGHT; SUPERPOSITION STATES; TEMPORAL MODES; TIME DOMAIN (OCT); TIME SEPARATION; TWO PHOTONS;

LIGHT;

EID: 46349096910     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.77.063840     Document Type: Article

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