• DocumentCode
    732835
  • Title

    Direct measurement of the quantum density matrix in the basis of azimuthal angle

  • Author

    Mirhosseini, Mohammad ; Magana-Loaiza, Omar S. ; Rafsanjani, Seyed Mohammad Hashemi ; Chen, Changchen ; Karimi, Ebrahim ; Boyd, Robert W.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Opt., Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY, USA
  • fYear
    2015
  • fDate
    10-15 May 2015
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We theoretically propose and experimentally demonstrate a method for directly measuring the density matrix of an unknown quantum system in the basis of azimuthal angle. We apply our method for characterizing 7-dimensional pure and mixed superpositions of orbital-angular-momentum modes.
  • Keywords
    optical variables measurement; quantum optics; azimuthal angle; orbital-angular-momentum modes; quantum density matrix measurement; Azimuthal angle; Density measurement; Extraterrestrial measurements; Optical polarization; Photonics; Physical optics;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2015 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7183272
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=732835