A high-fidelity noiseless amplifier for quantum light states

Nature Photonics

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 52-56

  Zavatta, A ^a,b   Fiurasek J ^c   Bellini, M ^a,b  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OTTICA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c PALACKÝ UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLIFICATION SCHEME; ARBITRARY QUANTUM STATE; COHERENT STATE; EXPERIMENTAL REALIZATIONS; LINEAR AMPLIFIERS; NOISELESS AMPLIFIER; PHASE-INSENSITIVE AMPLIFIERS; PHOTON ADDITIONS;

PHOTONICS;

QUANTUM COMMUNICATION;

EID: 78650555077     PISSN: 17494885     EISSN: 17494893     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nphoton.2010.260     Document Type: Article

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