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Optics Letters

Design of transparent optical networks by using novel quantum amplifiers and sources

Horace P. Yuen

Published Oct 1, 1987• 39 citations
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Abstract

It is shown how the photon-number amplifier may be used to make, for either novel or conventional sources, an efficient direct-detection receiver and transceiver in a local-area network environment and how the parametric amplifier may be used similarly for a homodyne-detection receiver.
DOI
10.1364/ol.12.000789

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