Abstract
Large-photon-number path entanglement is an important resource for enhanced precision measurements and quantum imaging. We present a general constructive protocol to create any large-photon-number path-entangled state based on the conditional detection of single photons. The influence of imperfect detectors is considered and an asymptotic scaling law is derived.
- Received 30 November 2001
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.65.052104
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