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A Photonic System for Generating Unconditional Polarization-Entangled Photons Based on Multiple Quantum Interference
Published on: September 5, 2019
Fisher information as a generalized measure of coherence in classical and quantum optics
1Departamento de Óptica, Facultad de Ciencias F´ısicas, Universidad Complutense 28040 Madrid, Spain. alluis@fis.ucm.es
Abstract:
We show that metrological resolution in the detection of small phase shifts provides a suitable generalization of the degrees of coherence and polarization. Resolution is estimated via Fisher information. Besides the standard two-beam Gaussian case, this approach provides also good results for multiple field components and nonGaussian statistics. This works equally well in quantum and classical optics.
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