Hi,
I read several literatures on quantum cryptography plug and play system. I found out that Faraday mirror was used to compensate polarization fluctuations. Photons are reflected orthogonally by Faraday mirror and their polarization changes will then be autocompensated, provided they follow...
Yes that helped.
mm..am I totally wrong or almost correct if I assume the following :-
Based on your explanation on the snippet of the said paper,
- we can use the wave characteristics of a single photon.
- where it has two orthogonal components that is |V> (vertical) and |H> (horizontal)...
Hi DeShark,
thank you for responding. Yes, I agree with you that we can't split a photon. However,
I came across a paper that puzzle me up recently. Or, did I understand it different from what they were trying to tell ..
The following are snippet from a paper of Chinese Physic Letter Vol...
Hi.
I have a question regarding what happen to a single photon when it hit a polarization beam splitter (PBS) that splits photon based on Horizontal and Vertical polarization.
If the input single photon is Horizontal or Vertical, I'm sure it will go out through the appropriate Horizontal...
hi tiny-tim,
I've contacted the author since and the following is the snippet from his response that I'd like to share.
Hope it clarifies any doubts ..
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The x in Eq. 12 & 13 is just matrix multiplication and is there because the equation continued onto a second line. I...
hi tiny-tim,
thank you so much for the insight. I'll take it as ordinary matrix mulitplication for now.
But I'm still curious, why they use that X sign, has got to be something ..mm.
thanks,
--islahna
Hi,
I have a basic question on Mueller matrix which I came across upon reading through the Handbook of Optic, chapter 22 polarimetry. It says that :-
when a polarization element with Mueller matrix M is rotated about the beam of light by an angle \theta such that the angle of incident is...