Full characterization of polarization states of light via direct measurement

Nature Photonics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 316-321

  Salvail, Jeff Z ^a   Agnew, Megan ^a   Johnson, Allan S ^a   Bolduc, Eliot ^a   Leach, Jonathan ^a   Boyd, Robert W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE APPROACH; DIRECT MEASUREMENT; DIRECT OBSERVATIONS; POLARIZATION QUANTUM STATE; POLARIZATION STATE; PROBABILITY AMPLITUDE; QUANTUM INFORMATION; QUASIPROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

EXPERIMENTS; PHASE SPACE METHODS; POLARIZATION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84875812618     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2013.24     Document Type: Article

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