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Frontiers in Optics

Multidimensional Tomography of Photon-pair Sources Using Stimulated Emission

Virginia O. Lorenz

Published Jan 1, 2017• 0 citations
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Abstract

The efficient characterization of photonic quantum sources enables precise source engineering for quantum information applications. I present our demonstrations of the stimulated emission tomography technique to efficiently characterize sources in multiple degrees of freedom.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2017.fm3e.1

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