Dispersion cancellation and non-classical noise reduction for large photon-number states

Summary form only given. Two classical pulses of light propagating through two distant, dispersive media will experience dispersion that depends only on the local properties of the two media. It was previously shown, however, that two entangled photons propagating through two dispersive media, can experience a cancellation of dispersion in the sense that the two photons will arrive at two equally-distant detectors at the same time despite the dispersion. Other forms of dispersion cancellation have also been described. We generalize dispersion cancellation to entangled states containing a large number N of photons in each pulse.