Balanced homodyne detection of optical quantum states at audio-band frequencies and below

Classical and Quantum Gravity

Volumn 29, Issue 14, 2012, Pages

  Stefszky, M S ^a   Mow Lowry, C M ^a   Chua, S S Y ^a   Shaddock, D A ^a   Buchler, B C ^a   Vahlbruch, H ^b   Khalaidovski, A ^b   Schnabel, R ^b   Lam, P K ^a   McClelland, D E ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

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EID: 84862891081     PISSN: 02649381     EISSN: 13616382     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0264-9381/29/14/145015     Document Type: Article

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