Generating optical Schrödinger kittens for quantum information processing

Science

Volumn 312, Issue 5770, 2006, Pages 83-86

  Ourjoumtsev, Alexei ^a   Tualle Brouri, Rosa ^a   Laurat, Julien ^a   Grangier, Philippe ^a  

^a UNIV PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; FUNCTIONS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PHOTONS; VACUUM;

COHERENT STATES; LIGHT PULSE; VACUUM BEAM; WIGNER FUNCTION;

QUANTUM THEORY;

RADON;

INFORMATION PROCESSING; OPTICAL THEORY; QUANTUM MECHANICS;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ELECTRIC FIELD; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LIGHT; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NOISE; OPTICS; PHOTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTUM MECHANICS; RADIATION MEASUREMENT; SCHRODINGER KITTEN; SIGNAL DETECTION; VACUUM;

EID: 33645679529     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1122858     Document Type: Article

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