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
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