Ultrasensitive pulsed, balanced homodyne detector: Application to time-domain quantum measurements

Optics Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 21, 2001, Pages 1714-1716

  Hansen, H ^a   Aichele, T ^a   Hettich, C ^a   Lodahl, P ^a   Lvovsky, A I ^a   Mlynek, J ^a   Schiller, S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALANCED HOMODYNE DETECTORS (BHD);

LIGHT ABSORPTION; NOISE ABATEMENT; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PHOTODETECTORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0001029189     PISSN: 01469592     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OL.26.001714     Document Type: Article

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