Noise-powered probabilistic concentration of phase information

Nature Physics

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 767-771

  Usuga, Mario A ^a,b   Müller, Christian R ^a,c   Wittmann, Christoffer ^a,c   Marek, Petr ^d   Filip, Radim ^d   Marquardt, Christoph ^a,c   Leuchs, Gerd ^a,c   Andersen, Ulrik L ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR THE SCIENCE OF LIGHT   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^d PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM COMMUNICATION; QUANTUM NOISE;

FUNDAMENTAL NOISE; INCOHERENT NOISE; OPTICAL AMPLIFICATIONS; PHASE INFORMATION; PHASE UNCERTAINTIES; PHOTON NUMBERS; QUANTUM LIMIT; QUANTUM STATE;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 77957588957     PISSN: 17452473     EISSN: 17452481     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphys1743     Document Type: Article

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