Measuring protein concentration with entangled photons

Applied Physics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 23, 2012, Pages

  Crespi, Andrea ^a,b   Lobino, Mirko ^c   Matthews, Jonathan C F ^c   Politi, Alberto ^c   Neal, Chris R ^c   Ramponi, Roberta ^a,b   Osellame, Roberto ^a,b   O'Brien, Jeremy L ^c  

^a IFN CNR   (Italy)

^b POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AQUEOUS BUFFER SOLUTION; BLOOD PROTEIN; ENTANGLED PHOTONS; ENTANGLED STATE; LIGHT INTENSITY; MICROFLUIDIC CHANNEL; OPTICAL COMPONENTS; OPTICAL INTERFEROMETRY; PRECISE MEASUREMENTS; PRECISION MEASUREMENT; PROTEIN CONCENTRATIONS; QUANTUM METROLOGY; SENSITIVE TECHNIQUES; TWO PHOTON; WAVEGUIDE INTERFEROMETERS;

FLUIDIC DEVICES; PHOTONS;

INTERFEROMETRY;

EID: 84862145219     PISSN: 00036951     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4724105     Document Type: Article

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