Photon propagation in a discrete fiber network: An interplay of coherence and losses

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 107, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Regensburger, Alois ^a,b   Bersch, Christoph ^a,b   Hinrichs, Benjamin ^a,b   Onishchukov, Georgy ^b   Schreiber, Andreas ^b   Silberhorn, Christine ^b,c   Peschel, Ulf ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADERBORN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT PHENOMENA; DECOHERENCE; DISCRETE TIME VERSION; ENERGY DECAY; ENERGY GRADIENTS; EXPERIMENTAL SETUP; FIBER NETWORKS; FRACTAL PATTERNS; OPTICAL EXPERIMENTS; PHOTON LOSS; PHOTON PROPAGATION; PHOTONIC SYSTEMS; PHOTONIC WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM WALK;

LIGHT PROPAGATION;

PHOTONS;

EID: 82655165247     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.233902     Document Type: Article

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