Simultaneous, Full Characterization of a Single-Photon State
Tim O. Thomay, Sergey V. Polyakov, Olivier Gazzano, Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, Zachary Eldredge, Tobias Huber, Vivien Loo, Glenn S. Solomon · Physical Review X · 2017
Advances in quantum optics and quantum information technologies increasingly require a way to fully understand the state of single indistinguishable photons. While previous approaches have needed two or more measurements, a new experiment demonstrates a way to characterize single-photon states with just one measurement.