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High-Efficiency, Ultrafast Photon-Number Statistics from Phase-Averaged Homodyne Detection

M. Munroe, Deepak Boggavarapu, Matthew E. Anderson, Ulf Leonhardt, Michael G. Raymer

Published Jan 1, 1996• 0 citations
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10.1007/978-1-4757-9742-8_10

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