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10 - Experiment: Parameter Estimation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2023

Claude Fabre
Affiliation:
Sorbonne Université, Paris
Rodrigo G. Cortiñas
Affiliation:
Yale University, Connecticut
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Summary

Experimental chapter describing different experiments allowing us to accurately measure physical parameters, such as very small concentrations of atomic species by intensity monitoring, the observation of gravitational waves using giant interferometers, transverse positioning of light beams, transition frequencies of metrological interest using laser frequency combs, and magnetometry of ultra-small magnetic fields using superconducting quantum interference devices (SQUIDs).

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Quantum Processes and Measurement
Theory and Experiment
, pp. 178 - 185
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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