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Frontiers in Optics

The spatial dimension of quantum optics

Hans‐A. Bachor, Mikael Lassen, V. Delaubert, Jiří Janoušek, K. Wagner, Hongxin Zou, Ping Koy Lam, Nicolas Treps, Preben Buchhave, Claude Fabre, C. C. Harb

Published Jan 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

The spatial properties of laser beams can be used to encode, transfer and detect quantum information into high order modes with high efficiency. We demonstrate the use of multimode states, including spatial squeezing and entanglement.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2007.jtub1

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