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We propose a technique for performing quantum state tomography of photonic polarization-encoded multiqubit states. Our method uses a single rotating wave plate, a polarizing beam splitter, and two photon-counting detectors per photon mode. As the wave plate rotates, the photon counters measure a pseudocontinuous signal which is then Fourier transformed. The density matrix of the state is recons...

A novel spatial phase-shifting method using moiré phenomena is presented. According to our analysis of moiré patterns on the base of scalar diffraction theory there is stable phase shift between fringe patterns of different order filtering. This phase shift is the stric value of   and   and just depend on the distance between two gratings and the period of gratings. In this spatial phase-sh...

A simple approach to producing a 1×N beam splitter is demonstrated by fabricating a volumetric multiplex phase Fresnel zone plate in bulk transparent material. This comprised four layers of zone plates created in borosilicate glass by femtosecond laser direct-writing, each shifted laterally relative to the illumination axis, creating four separate beamlets. Since the power transmitted in each b...

We report experimental results with a reflective continuous anisotropic polarizing diffraction-grating beam splitter that produces three diffraction orders. The diffraction efficiencies and polarizations of the diffracted orders are controlled through the incoming polarization state and by use of a wave plate with arbitrary orientation located between the grating and a mirror. In particular, we...

This paper examines the sound generated by an inviscid low Mach number vortex filament as it moves near a semi-infinite splitter in two-dimensional duct with and without shedding at edge. A strong one-dimensional is produced when close to Without shedding, shown consist of predominantly compressive pulses which propagate split section rarefaction pulse downstream edge, regardless position half ...

To simulate and reconstruct optical alignment systems a general purpose software, named COCOA, has been developed, using the object oriented paradigm and software engineering techniques. Thanks to the big flexibility in its design, COCOA is able to reconstruct any optical system made of a combination of the following objects: laser, x-hair laser, incoherent source pinhole, lens, mirror, plate s...

The performance of a polarizing beam splitter based on the one-dimensional photonic crystals (1D-PCs), is theoretically investigated. The polarizing beam splitter consists of a symmetric stack of the low-index quarter-wave plates and the high-index half-wave plates with a central defect layer of air. The linear transmission properties of the polarizing beam splitter are numerically simulat...