Measuring arbitrary-order coherences: Tomography of single-mode multiphoton polarization-entangled states

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Schilling, U ^a   Von Zanthier, J ^a   Agarwal, G S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTANGLED STATE; FOCK STATE; HALF WAVEPLATE; INTENSITY MOMENT; LIGHT BEAM; MULTIPHOTON POLARIZATION; OPTIMAL MEASUREMENTS; POLARIZATION OPTICS; POLARIZED LIGHT; POLARIZING BEAM SPLITTERS; QUARTER WAVE-PLATE; SINGLE MODE; SPATIAL MODES; STATE TOMOGRAPHY; WAVEPLATES;

POLARIZATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

LIGHT;

EID: 75749101807     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.81.013826     Document Type: Article

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