Quantum limits on phase-preserving linear amplifiers

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 86, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Caves, Carlton M ^a,b   Combes, Joshua ^a   Jiang, Zhang ^a   Pandey, Shashank ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANCILLA; HIGH-GAIN; LINEAR AMPLIFIERS; OPERATING FREQUENCY; ORIGINAL SIGNAL; PHYSICAL STATE; QUANTUM CONSTRAINTS; QUANTUM LIMIT; SECOND MOMENTS; WIGNER FUNCTIONS;

PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

QUANTUM THEORY;

EID: 84870595227     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.86.063802     Document Type: Article

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