Beating the standard quantum limit: Phase super-sensitivity of N-photon interferometers

New Journal of Physics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Okamoto, Ryo ^a,b   Hofmann, Holger F ^c   Nagata, Tomohisa ^a   O'Brien, Jeremy L ^d   Sasaki, Keiji ^a   Takeuchi, Shigeki ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STANDARDS;

DETECTION PROBABILITIES; ENHANCED SENSITIVITY; INTERFERENCE FRINGES; MAXIMUM PHASE SENSITIVITY; MAXIMUM SLOPE; OPTICAL PHASE; PARAMETER RANGING; PHASE SENSITIVITY; PHOTON INTERFERENCE; QUANTUM METROLOGY; STANDARD QUANTUM LIMIT (SQL);

PHOTONS;

EID: 47749155987     PISSN: 13672630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/10/7/073033     Document Type: Article

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