Practical quantum interferometry using photonic N00N states

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6573, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Gilbert, Gerald ^a   Hamrick, Michael ^a   Weinstein, Yaakov S ^a  

^a MITRE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Heisenberg limit; N00N states; Transmittance

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION; PHOTONICS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM INTERFERENCE DEVICES;

HEISENBERG LIMIT; PHASE ESTIMATION; TRANSMITTANCE;

QUANTUM COMPUTERS;

EID: 35948941569     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.719896     Document Type: Conference Paper

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