Expand this Topic clickable element to expand a topic
Skip to content
Optica Publishing Group
  • The Rochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics and the Quantum Information and Measurement meeting
  • OSA Technical Digest (online) (Optica Publishing Group, 2013),
  • paper M5A.3
  • https://doi.org/10.1364/CQO.2013.M5A.3

Quantum Tools for Classical Coherence

Open Access Open Access

Abstract

The statistical description of optical fields in coherence theory is based on underlying fluctuations originating at the source or during propagation through a random medium. We show that uncertainty (partial coherence) also stems from the act of ignoring a degree of freedom of a beam when observing another degree of freedom classically entangled with it. Specifically, we demonstrate that Bells measure, commonly used in tests of quantum non-locality, is as a quantitative tool that delineates intrinsic incoherence associated with statistical fluctuations from classical entanglement-based incoherence. This demonstrates, more generally, the applicability of concepts from quantum information processing to classical optical coherence theory and optical signal processing.

© 2013 Optical Society of America

PDF Article
More Like This
Bell’s Measure as a Quantitative Tool in Classical Optical Coherence of Electromagnetic Fields

Kumel H. Kagalwala, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, Ayman F. Abouraddy, and Bahaa E. A. Saleh
QTh1E.6 CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science (CLEO:FS) 2013

Quantum Correlations from Classical Coherence Theory?

Daniel F. V. James
M5A.2 Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics (CQO) 2013

Classical Entanglement in Electromagnetic Beams

Kumel H. Kagalwala, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, Ayman F. Abouraddy, and Bahaa E. A. Saleh
M6.08 Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics (CQO) 2013

Select as filters


Select Topics Cancel
© Copyright 2024 | Optica Publishing Group. All Rights Reserved