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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Suppressing Polarization Mode Dispersion with the Quantum Zeno Effect.

Ian Nodurft, Alejandro Rodriguez Perez, Naveed Naimipour, Harry C Shaw

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 authors.

Ian NodurftPeraton, Reston, VA 20190, USA.
Alejandro Rodriguez PerezNASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.ORCID 0009-0006-2898-3207
Naveed NaimipourNASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.
Harry C ShawNASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Rd., Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7241-3793

Funding

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center 80GSFC19C0063
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Polarization mode dispersion can introduce quantum decoherence in polarization encoded information, limiting the range of quantum communications protocols. Therefore, strategies to nullify the effect would reduce quantum decoherence and potentially increase the operational range of such technology. We constructed a quantum model of polarization mode dispersion alongside a two-level absorbing material. The two-level material serves to destructively measure one of two orthogonal polarization modes, thus projecting the polarization onto the other state. The theoretical results are supported by a numerical simulation in Mathematica Documentation where we compare the evolution of the polarization state with and without the absorbing material. We find that this strategy is effective in suppressing the effects of polarization mode dispersion, and that this method produces a global phase shift related to the waveguide's birefringent properties.

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fibersoptical fibersPMDpolarizationpolarization mode dispersionquantum Zeno effectwaveguidesZeno

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PMID39851647
PMCPMC11764368

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