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Entanglement in correlated spontaneous emission lasers

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Recent studies show that macroscopic entangled states of the radiation field can be generated using correlated spontaneous emission lasers (CEL) even in the presence of cavity losses. Some of the basic schemes based on two-photon CEL and quantum beat laser (QBL) are reviewed in this article.

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  1. The National Centre for Mathematics and Physics, KACST, P.O. Box 6086, Riyadh, 11442, Saudi Arabia

    Mohammad Al-Amri

  2. Centre for Quantum Physics, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Sajid Qamar, Shahid Qamar & M. Suhail Zubairy

  3. Department of Physics and Applied Mathematics, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nilore, Islamabad, Pakistan

    Shahid Qamar

  4. Institute for Quantum Studies and Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 77843-4242, USA

    M. Suhail Zubairy

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Al-Amri, M., Qamar, S., Qamar, S. et al. Entanglement in correlated spontaneous emission lasers. Quantum Inf Process 8, 587–605 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-009-0142-9

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