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Nonlinear Optics

Quantum State Reconstruction and Photon Statistics for Coherent States interacting with Quantum Dots

Fabian Böhm, Nicolai B. Grosse, Mirco Kolarczik, Bastian Herzog, Nina Owschimikow, U. Woggon

Published Jan 1, 2017• 1 citation
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Abstract

Optical quantum state tomography is applied to a quantum dot semiconductor optical amplifier to reconstruct the time-resolved evolution of the quantum state of the emitted field and of the photon statistics.
DOI
10.1364/nlo.2017.nth2a.1

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