Front Cover -- Structured Light for Optical Communication -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1 Basics of quantum communication -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Optical polarization -- 1.3 Dirac's notation -- 1.4 Quantum bits (qubits) -- 1.5 The Bloch sphere -- 1.6 Quantum...

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1. Verfasser:	Al-Amri, Mohammad D. (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	San Diego Elsevier 2021
Schriftenreihe:	Nanophotonics Series
Schlagworte:	Quantenkommunikation Optische Nachrichtentechnik
Zusammenfassung:	Front Cover -- Structured Light for Optical Communication -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of contributors -- Preface -- 1 Basics of quantum communication -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Optical polarization -- 1.3 Dirac's notation -- 1.4 Quantum bits (qubits) -- 1.5 The Bloch sphere -- 1.6 Quantum entanglement and nonlocality -- 1.7 Measurement, decoherence, and irreversibility -- 1.8 Quantum cloning -- 1.9 Quantum communication with single photons -- 1.9.1 Polarization encoding -- 1.9.2 Orbital angular momentum (OAM) encoding -- 1.9.3 Time-bin encoding -- 1.9.4 Path encoding -- 1.9.5 Frequency-bin encoding -- 1.10 Protocols of quantum communications -- 1.10.1 Quantum key distribution (QKD) protocols -- 1.10.1.1 The BB84 protocol -- 1.10.1.2 The E91 protocol -- 1.10.2 Quantum teleportation protocol -- 1.10.3 Superdense coding protocol -- 1.11 Ranges of quantum communication -- 1.11.1 Long distance quantum communication -- 1.11.1.1 Quantum Internet -- 1.11.2 Short distance quantum communications -- 1.12 Conclusions -- Acknowledgments -- References -- 2 Structured light -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Optical angular momentum -- 2.3 Helmholtz equation and paraxial regime -- 2.3.1 Linearly polarized 'unstructured' light -- 2.3.2 Elliptically polarized -- 2.4 Structured light -- 2.4.1 Phase-structured light -- 2.4.2 Laguerre-Gaussian (LG) light beams -- 2.5 Bessel and Bessel-Gaussian vortex beams -- 2.5.1 Bessel vortex beams -- 2.5.2 Bessel-Gaussian vortex beams -- 2.6 Non-paraxial LG beams -- 2.6.1 Extracting the paraxial regime -- 2.7 Paraxial beams with small waists -- 2.8 Chirality and helicity -- 2.8.1 Cycle-averaged fields -- 2.8.2 Effects of the Gouy and curvature phases -- 2.9 Multiple vortex beams -- 2.9.1 Linearly polarized LG beams -- 2.9.2 Axial shift -- 2.9.2.1 Effects of frequency shift -- 2.9.2.2 Ferris wheels and conveyor belts
Beschreibung:	Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources Enthält Index Seite 291-297
Beschreibung:	xiv, 297 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme
ISBN:	9780128215104