Optical interferometry at the Heisenberg limit with twin Fock states and parity measurements

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 238101-238105

  Campos, R A ^a   Gerry, Christopher C ^a   Benmoussa, A ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERFEROMETRY; OPTICAL BEAM SPLITTERS; PHOTONS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

PARITY MEASUREMENTS;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 4243417749     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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