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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Generation and detection of entangled light fields with negative Wigner functions

Alexei Ourjoumtsev, Aurélien Dantan, Rosa Tualle-Brouri, Philippe Grangier

Published Jun 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

We experimentally demonstrate that the entanglement between Gaussian entangled states can be increased by non-Gaussian operations.
DOI
10.1109/cleoe-iqec.2007.4386784

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