The Shape and Polarization of a Conventional Laser Beam (IMAGE)

City College of New York

The Shape and Polarization of a Conventional Laser Beam

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The shape and polarization of a conventional laser beam from a laser pointer mimics quantum entanglement when the laser beam has a polarization dependent shape. This can be used to encode twice as many bits of information as when the laser beam is "separable."

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Giovanni Milione

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