Several mechanisms that affect one and two photon coherence in optical fibers and their remedies are discussed. The results are illustrated on quantum cryptography experiments and on long distance Bell inequality tests.
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9901043,
title = {Quantum cryptography and long distance Bell experiments: How to control decoherence},
author = {N. Gisin and J. Brendel and J-D. Gautier and B. Gisin and B. Huttner and G. Ribordy and W. Tittel and H. Zbinden},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9901043},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
To appear in the proceedings of the workshop on "Decoherence" organised by the ZIF in Bielefeld, October 1998. 6 pages + 5 figures