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Optics Letters

Soliton-collision interferometer for the quantum nondemolition measurement of photon number: numerical results

Yoshitaka Sakai, Raymond J. Hawkins, Stephen R. Friberg

Published Feb 15, 1990• 26 citations
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Abstract

Using analytic theory and numerical experiments, we show that a quantum nondemolition measurement of the photon number of optical solitons in a single-mode optical fiber can be made. We describe the soliton-collision interferometer with which we propose to make this measurement and discuss simulations of the performance of this interferometer.

DOI
10.1364/ol.15.000239

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