• DocumentCode
    2262105
  • Title

    Conservation of vacuum in an interferometer

  • Author

    Berry, D.W. ; Lvovsky, A.I.

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. for Quantum Comput., Univ. of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    1-6 May 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We provide a systematic method of quantifying the amount of loss a multimode optical state has experienced. We show that it is not possible to concentrate the non-vacuum components via linear optics.
  • Keywords
    quantum computing; vacuum (elementary particles); interferometer; linear optics; multimode optical state; nonvacuum components; Loss measurement; Optical interferometry; Optical losses; Optical sensors; Photonics; Propagation losses; Quantum computing;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Baltimore, MD
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-1223-4
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    5951546