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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2011 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Baltimore, MD
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1223-4
