The potential of twin photons generated by parametric down-conversion for metrological applications are discussed. We present several experimental results like the measurement of chromatic dispersion and polarization mode dispersion in optical fibers.
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/9807063,
title = {Twin-photon techniques for fiber measurements},
author = {H. Gisin and J. Brendel and H. Zbinden and A. Sergienko and A. Muller},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/9807063},
year = {2007}
}
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6 pages, 5 figures, Invited paper for the Symposium on Optical Fiber Measurements, sponsored by NIST, Boulder, Co, September 15-17, 1998