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Comment on: Quantum optics with particles of light

John M. Fini

Published Feb 11, 2002• 0 citations
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Abstract

Errors in the recent article, "Quantum optics with particles of light," are discussed. "Dispersed states" resulting from linear optics are simply coherent states, and have no interesting quantum statistics.
DOI
10.1364/oe.10.000155

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