Mach-Zehnder interferometry at the Heisenberg limit with coherent and squeezed-vacuum light

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Pezzé, Luca ^a   Smerzi, Augusto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CRAMER-RAO BOUNDS; MACH-ZEHNDER INTERFEROMETERS; PHASE SHIFT; VACUUM APPLICATIONS;

PHASE SENSITIVITY; SQUEEZED-VACUUM LIGHT;

COHERENT LIGHT;

EID: 40849094867     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.100.073601     Document Type: Article

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