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Dispersion spreading of polarization-entangled states of light and two-photon interference
We study the interference structure of the second-order intensity correlation
function for polarization-entangled two-photon light obtained from type-II
collinear frequency-degenerate spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC).
The structure is visualised due to the spreading of the two-photon amplitude as
two-photon light propagates through optical fibre with group-velocity
dispersion (GVD). Because of the spreading, polarization-entangled Bell states
can be obtained without any birefringence compensation at the output of the
nonlinear crystal; instead, proper time selection of the intensity correlation
function is required. A birefringent material inserted at the output of the
nonlinear crystal (either reducing the initial o-e delay between the oppositely
polarized twin photons or increasing this delay) leads to a more complicated
interference structure of the correlation function.Comment: Extended version of our recent PRL paper. Submitted to PR
In situ method for power re-equalization of wavelength pulses inside of OCDMA codes
A simple in-situ method to equalize power among individual wavelengths pulses representing two-dimensional wavelength-hopping time-spreading OCDMA code originally generated by a fibre Bragg grating-based OCDMA encoder is presented. Experimental data obtained in a field-based multiuser OCDMA testbed shows that applying this method results in system performance enhancements which was demonstrated by observing improved bit error rate (BER) during the field trials
Femtosecond transition-state dynamics
This article presents the progress made in probing femtosecond transition–state dynamics of elementary reactions. Experiments demonstrating the dynamics in systems characterized by a transition region and by a saddle-point transition state are reported, and comparison with theory is made
Atmospheric propagation issues relevant to optical communications
Atmospheric propagation issues relevant to space-to-ground optical communications for near-earth applications are studied. Propagation effects, current optical communication activities, potential applications, and communication techniques are surveyed. It is concluded that a direct-detection space-to-ground link using redundant receiver sites and temporal encoding is likely to be employed to transmit earth-sensing satellite data to the ground some time in the future. Low-level, long-term studies of link availability, fading statistics, and turbulence climatology are recommended to support this type of application
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