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Interferometric tunability of the absorption

Quantum Physics 2009-11-13 v2

Abstract

We propose an interferometric setup that permits to tune the quantity of radiation absorbed by an object illuminated by a fixed light source. The method can be used to selectively irradiate portions of an object based on their transmissivities or to accurately estimate the transmissivities from rough absorption measurements.

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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0602110,
  title  = {Interferometric tunability of the absorption},
  author = {Vittorio Giovannetti and Seth Lloyd and Lorenzo Maccone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0602110},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

4 pages, 5 figures. Revised in response to the comments of the referees. Section added with new material