Derivation of the density matrix of a single photon produced in parametric down-conversion

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Kolenderski, Piotr ^a   Wasilewski, Wojciech ^b,c  

^a NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY MATRIX; EXPERIMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; FIBER COUPLED; IN-PROCESS; NONCOLLINEAR; PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION; SINGLE PHOTONS; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION;

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

PARTICLE BEAMS;

EID: 68849085046     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.015801     Document Type: Article

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