Fast time-domain balanced homodyne detection of light

Applied Optics

Volumn 48, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 2884-2889

  Haderka, Ondrej ^a   Michálek, Václav ^a   Urbášek, Vladimir ^a   Ježek, Miroslav ^a  

^a PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIGHT; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY; QUANTUM THEORY; SHOT NOISE; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BALANCED HOMODYNE DETECTION; EFFICIENT DETECTION; ELECTRONIC PARTS; FEMTOSECOND LIGHT PULSE; HIGH SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; OPTICAL MEASUREMENT; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; TIME RESOLUTION;

HOMODYNE DETECTION;

EID: 67449102611     PISSN: 1559128X     EISSN: 15394522     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/AO.48.002884     Document Type: Article

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