Photonic polarization gears for ultra-sensitive angular measurements

Nature Communications

Volumn 4, Issue , 2013, Pages

  D'Ambrosio, Vincenzo ^a   Spagnolo, Nicolò ^a   Del Re, Lorenzo ^a   Slussarenko, Sergei ^b   Li, Ying ^c   Kwek, Leong Chuan ^c,d,e   Marrucci, Lorenzo ^f   Walborn, Stephen P ^g   Aolita, Leandro ^h,i   Sciarrino, Fabio ^a,j  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^d NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^f CNR SPIN   (Italy)

^g FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^h ICFO INSTITUT DE CIENCIES FOTONIQUES   (Spain)

ⁱ FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^j ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLARIZATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

ARTICLE; LIQUID CRYSTAL; MEASUREMENT PRECISION; OPTICS; PHOTON; POLARIZATION; QUANTUM MECHANICS; ROTATION;

EID: 84887462912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms3432     Document Type: Article

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