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The optical Kerr effect provides an ideal quantum non-demolition interaction. Experiments and proposals using this interaction are reviewed with special emphasis on optical soliton pulses propagating in fibres. The performance of a quantum non-demolition experiment using the optical Kerr effect may be reduced by self-phase modulation of the probe pulse. Proposals to overcome this limitation are discussed.
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Received: 15 April 1996
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Spälter, S., van Loock, P., Sizmann, A. et al. Quantum non-demolition measurements with optical solitons. Appl Phys B 64, 213–218 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400050166
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s003400050166