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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Effects of Entanglement in Optical Amplifiers

J. D. Franson, R. A. Brewster

Published Jan 1, 2017• 0 citations
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Abstract

Entanglement between the signal and the amplifying medium can produce a large amount of decoherence in an ideal optical amplifier even when the gain is arbitrarily close to unity and the added noise is negligible.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2017.fw1f.4

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