Imperfect photodetection as projection onto mixed states

Optics Communications

Volumn 158, Issue 1-6, 1998, Pages 45-49

  Barnett, Stephen M ^a,b   Phillips, Lee S ^a   Pegg, David T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b Kashino Diverse Brain Research Laboratory of NTT Communication Science Laboratories   (Japan)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Mixed states; Photodetection

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PHOTODETECTORS;

IMPERFECT PHOTON COUNTING MEASUREMENT;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0032304094     PISSN: 00304018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0030-4018(98)00511-2     Document Type: Article

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