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Quantum-Enhanced Electro-Optic Sampling

Patrick Cusson, Stéphane Virally, Denis V. Seletskiy

Published May 31, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract

We propose a realistic setup for electro-optic sampling with heralded quantum gates stemming from bright entangled twin beams. The signal-to-noise ratio is increased 7-fold without breaking the weak-measurement condition.
DOI
10.1109/pn52152.2021.9597961

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