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The content of the following chapter is based on the publication “Quantum Entanglement of Complex Photon Polarization Patterns in Vector Beams” (Fickler et al., Quantum entanglement of complex photon polarization patterns in vector beams, 2013, [1]).
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q-plates are liquid crystal devices that transfer a photon’s spin to its orbital angular momentum. More details can be found in [6].
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The source was adjusted such that the bi-photon polarization state was in the
state (see Eq. (2.38)). As already mentioned in Chap. 2, this state is special, since it is the only Bell-state that is anti-correlated in all three MUBs. This means, that if the first photon is found in a certain polarization state the second one will be orthogonally polarized. - 3.
Analogous to its definition in Sect. 4.1, the quantum efficiency of an ICCD can be regarded as a measure of its electrical sensitivity to a photon.
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The blazed phase grating is simply added to the targeted phase pattern (modulo \(2\pi \)), which leads to a phase hologram. Since only the first diffraction order is imaged to the ICCD chip, adjusting the diffraction efficiency leads to a modulation of the intensity. For more information about this technique the reader is referred to [14].
state (see Eq. (References
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Fickler, R. (2016). Entanglement of Complex Photon Polarization Patterns in Vector Beams. In: Quantum Entanglement of Complex Structures of Photons. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22231-8_5
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