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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

How to measure a coherent state with minimal disturbance

Ulrik L. Andersen, Metin Sabuncu, Radim Filip, Gerd Leuchs

Published Jan 1, 2006• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report on the first experimental demonstration of coherent state estimation with minimal disturbance. We also demonstrate how such a scheme can enhance the transmission fidelity of some communication tasks.
DOI
10.1109/cleo.2006.4629002

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