Generation of hybrid polarization-orbital angular momentum entangled states

Optics Express

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2010, Pages 18243-18248

  Nagali, Eleonora ^a   Sciarrino, Fabio ^a,b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR MOMENTUM; LIGHT POLARIZATION; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM OPTICS; TOMOGRAPHY;

BELL'S INEQUALITY; COMMUNICATION CHANNEL; DEGREES OF FREEDOM; ENTANGLED STATE; HYBRID POLARIZATION; ORBITAL ANGULAR MOMENTUM; PARTICLE PAIR; POLARIZATION ENTANGLED STATE; QUANTUM NETWORK; QUANTUM STATE; QUANTUM STATE TOMOGRAPHY; SPONTANEOUS PARAMETRIC DOWN CONVERSION; TWO PHOTON;

QUANTUM ENTANGLEMENT;

BARIUM; BORIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; OPTICS; PHOTON; QUANTUM THEORY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; BARIUM; BORATES; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OPTICS AND PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 77956369522     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.18.018243     Document Type: Article

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