Fiber-optic realization of anisotropic depolarizing quantum channels

Journal of the Optical Society of America B: Optical Physics

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 668-673

  Karpiński, Michał ^a   Radzewicz, Czesław ^a   Banaszek, Konrad ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); DEPOLARIZATION; FIBER OPTICS; MULTIPHOTON PROCESSES; PHOTONS; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM THEORY;

DECOHERENCE EFFECTS; MODAL STRUCTURES; MULTIPHOTON INTERFERENCE; POLARIZATION CONTROLLERS; POLARIZATION STATE; POLARIZATION-ENTANGLED PHOTONS; QUANTUM PROCESS TOMOGRAPHY; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

EID: 49049104387     PISSN: 07403224     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/JOSAB.25.000668     Document Type: Article

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