Phase detection at the quantum limit with multiphoton Mach-Zehnder interferometry

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 99, Issue 22, 2007, Pages

  Pezze L ^a   Smerzi, A ^a   Khoury, G ^b   Hodelin, J F ^b   Bouwmeester, D ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COHERENT LIGHT; PHASE SHIFT; PHOTONS; QUANTUM THEORY;

BAYESIAN PHASE ESTIMATION STRATEGY; LOGIC ELECTRONICS; MACH ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETER; PHASE DETECTION;

MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS;

EID: 36448978522     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.223602     Document Type: Article

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