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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Sub shot noise measurement without a separate local oscillator

O. Glöckl, Ulrik L. Andersen, Stefan Lorenz, Natalia Korolkova, Gerd Leuchs

Published Jan 1, 2004• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present an interferometric setup to perform sub-shot-noise measurements of the phase quadrature for intense pulsed light without additional local oscillator. Non-separability of a pair of quadrature entangled beams is demonstrated experimentally with this setup.
DOI
10.1364/iqec.2004.itug7

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