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Physical Review Letters

Cascaded Amplifying Quantum Optical Taps: A Robust Noiseless Optical Bus

Kamel Bencheikh, C. Simonneau, Juan Ariel Levenson

Published Jan 6, 1997• 26 citations
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Abstract

Two identical amplifying quantum optical taps, based on noiseless optical parametric amplification and twin beam quantum correlation, have been implemented in a series configuration and experimentally investigated. The result is an optical bus which we have shown to be robust with respect to downstream losses.
DOI
10.1103/physrevlett.78.34

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