Implementation of quantum state tomography for time-bin entangled photon pairs

Optics Express

Volumn 17, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 10976-10989

  Takesue, Hiroki ^a,b   Noguchi, Yuita ^b,c  

^a NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINS; FOUR WAVE MIXING; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; TOMOGRAPHY;

DELAYED INTERFEROMETERS; DISPERSION SHIFTED FIBERS; ENTANGLED PHOTON PAIRS; FIBER TRANSMISSIONS; POLARIZATION ENTANGLEMENT; QUANTUM STATE TOMOGRAPHY; SPONTANEOUS FOUR-WAVE MIXING;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

GLASS FIBER;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTICS; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; QUANTUM THEORY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TOMOGRAPHY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIBER OPTIC TECHNOLOGY; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OPTICAL FIBERS; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY; TOMOGRAPHY;

EID: 67649371462     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.17.010976     Document Type: Article

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