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Optics Communications

Phase-intensity uncertainty relation from quasiprobability distributions

Arkadiusz Orłowski, Harry Paul, B. Böhmer

Published Jun 1, 1997• 1 citation
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10.1016/s0030-4018(97)00086-2

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