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The Rochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics and the Quantum Information and Measurement meeting

Quantum Sensing of Absorbance and the Beer-Lambert Law

Euan J. Allen, Javier Sabines-Chesterking, Patrick M. Birchall, Siddarth Koduru Joshi, Alex R. McMillan, Jonathan C. F. Matthews

Published Jan 1, 2019• 1 citation
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Abstract

We theoretically and experimentally demonstrate that when absorbance estimation in the Beer-Lambert law is considered, the enhancement offered by optical quantum sensing strategies is drastically reduced by optimisation over the length of absorbing material.
DOI
10.1364/cqo.2019.m5a.28

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