Quantum-optical state engineering up to the two-photon level

Nature Photonics

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 243-247

  Bimbard, Erwan ^a,b   Jain, Nitin ^a,c   MacRae, Andrew ^a   Lvovsky, A I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY QUANTUM STATE; ARBITRARY SUPERPOSITION; CONDITIONAL MEASUREMENTS; OF QUANTUM-INFORMATION; PHYSICAL SYSTEMS; QUANTUM INFORMATION; SINGLE-PHOTON DETECTORS; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN-CONVERSION;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; PARTICLE BEAMS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 77950515939     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.6     Document Type: Article

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