Unbalanced homodyning for quantum state measurements

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 4528-4533

  Wallentowitz, S ^a   Vogel, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

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EID: 0000388248     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.53.4528     Document Type: Article

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