Quantum optics of lossy beam splitters

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 2134-2145

  Barnett, Stephen M ^a   Jeffers, John ^a   Gatti, Alessandra ^a   Loudon, Rodney ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0000307225     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.57.2134     Document Type: Article

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