• DocumentCode
    474776
  • Title

    Polarization-squeezed triphoton states and their Wigner representation on the Poincaré sphere

  • Author

    Shalm, L.K. ; Adamson, R.B. ; Steinberg, A.M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Toronto Univ., Toronto, ON
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    4-9 May 2008
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We present reconstructions of Wigner distributions for the polarization state of three indistinguishable photons on the generalized Poincare sphere. We study a variety of states including coherent, phase and NOON states.
  • Keywords
    Poincare mapping; Wigner distribution; light coherence; light polarisation; multiphoton processes; optical squeezing; quantum entanglement; Wigner distributions; coherent states; generalized Poincare sphere; maximally entangled NOON state; maximally squeezed NOON state; phase states; polarization-squeezed triphoton states; Lithography; Metrology; Optical control; Optical polarization; Optical sensors; Phase measurement; Photonics; Physics; Quantum entanglement; Stokes parameters; (270.4180) Multiphoton processes; (270.6570) Squeezed states;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    iet
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2008 and 2008 Conference on Quantum Electronics and Laser Science. CLEO/QELS 2008. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-55752-859-9
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    4572797