Heisenberg limited Sagnac interferometry

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 6798-6808

  Kolkiran, Aziz ^a   Agarwal, G S ^a  

^a OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OPTICAL FREQUENCY CONVERSION; OPTICAL PUMPING; PHOTONS;

SAGNAC INTERFEROMETERS;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 34249703545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.006798     Document Type: Article

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