Transport of orbital-angular-momentum entanglement through a turbulent atmosphere

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 6671-6683

  Pors, Bart Jan ^a   Monken, C H ^a,b   Eliel, Eric R ^a   Woerdman, J P ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF MINAS GERAIS   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; COINCIDENCE CIRCUITS; PHOTONS;

COINCIDENCE DETECTION; KOLMOGOROV; ORBITAL-ANGULAR- MOMENTUM; PROPAGATION DISTANCES; SCALING-UP; THEORETICAL MODELS; TURBULENT ATMOSPHERE; TWO PHOTON;

ATMOSPHERIC TURBULENCE;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LIGHT; METHODOLOGY; PHOTON; RADIATION SCATTERING; REFRACTOMETRY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ATMOSPHERE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LIGHT; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; REFRACTOMETRY; SCATTERING, RADIATION;

EID: 79953223767     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.006671     Document Type: Article

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