Universal unitary gate for single-photon spin-orbit four-dimensional states

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Slussarenko, Sergei ^a   Karimi, Ebrahim ^a   Piccirillo, Bruno ^a,b   Marrucci, Lorenzo ^a   Santamato, Enrico ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b Fisiche della Materia   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL TECHNOLOGY; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PHOTON STATE; QUANTUM INFORMATION; SPIN ORBITS; UNITARY GATES; UNITARY TRANSFORMATIONS;

LIGHT TRANSMISSION; OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS; ORBITS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

SPIN DYNAMICS;

EID: 69249151283     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.022326     Document Type: Article

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