Retrodiction for quantum optical communications

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 022313-022311

  Barnett, Stephen M ^a   Pegg, David T ^b   Jeffers, John ^a   Jedrkiewicz, Ottavia ^c   Loudon, Rodney ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION; ATTENUATION; COMMUNICATION CHANNELS (INFORMATION THEORY); EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTONS; PROBABILITY; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE;

OPTICAL COMMUNICATION CHANNEL; PREDICTIVE QUANTUM MECHANICS; PROBABILITY OPERATOR MEASURE; QUANTUM OPTICAL COMMUNICATION; RETRODICTIVE QUANTUM MECHANICS;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0034247581     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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