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Traveling-Wave Noiseless Amplification of Optical Images

Mikhail I. Kolobov, I. V. Sokolov, Luigi Lugiato

Published Dec 19, 2005• 0 citations
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Abstract

We consider a traveling-wave version of a ring-cavity noiseless amplifier of optical images, proposed recently. 1 This modification, on the one hand, is more realistic for the practical implementations, on the other hand, has several advantages over the cavity-based scheme, such as greater spatial bandwidth. We investigate in detail the quantum fluctuations of the amplifier and formulate criteria for its noiseless performance. We also estimate the spatial resolving power of noiseless amplification.

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10.1007/0-306-47097-7_65

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