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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Quantum tomography of the triphoton polarisation state on the Poincaré sphere

Lynden K. Shalm, Robert B. A. Adamson, and Yongyou Zhang, Aephraim M. Steinberg

Published Jan 1, 2006• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present reconstructions of Wigner-like distributions for the polarisation state of three indistinguishable photons on the generalized Poincae sphere. We study a variety of states, including spin-squeezed and entangled states, and compare their phase sensitivity.
DOI
10.1109/cleo.2006.4628999

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