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The uncertainty principle in a QND measurement of photon number

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Quantum Aspects of Optical Communications

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics ((LNP,volume 378))

Abstract

We study a simple setup for non-destructive detection of photon number. We in particular compare the device's inaccuracy and its phase disturbance to the uncertainty principle. As the traditional uncertainty principle involves neither inaccuracy nor disturbance, a new type of uncertainty relation is employed. Self-phase modulation is taken into account, losses are neglected.

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  1. Department of Theoretical Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology, PO Box 513, 5600, MB Eindhoven, Netherlands

    Hans Martens & Willem M. de Muynck

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  1. Hans Martens
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Cherif Bendjaballah Osamu Hirota Serge Reynaud

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Martens, H., de Muynck, W.M. (1991). The uncertainty principle in a QND measurement of photon number. In: Bendjaballah, C., Hirota, O., Reynaud, S. (eds) Quantum Aspects of Optical Communications. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 378. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-53862-3_165

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