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Quantum limitations on superluminal propagation
Unstable systems such as media with inverted atomic population have been
shown to allow the propagation of analytic wavepackets with group velocity
faster than that of light, without violating causality. We illuminate the
important role played by unstable modes in this propagation, and show that the
quantum fluctuations of these modes, and their unitary time evolution, impose
severe restrictions on the observation of superluminal phenomena.Comment: RevTeX 4 page
Using time reversal symmetry for sensitive incoherent matter-wave Sagnac interferometry
We present a theory of the transmission of incoherent guided matter-waves
through Sagnac interferometers. Interferometer configurations with only one
input and one output port have a property similar to the phase rigidity
observed in the transmission through Aharonov-Bohm interferometers in coherent
mesoscopic electronics. This property is connected to the existence of
counterpropagating paths of equal length and enables the operation of such
matter-wave interferometers with incoherent sources. High finesse
interferometers of this kind have a rotation sensitivity inversely proportional
to the square root of the finesse
Video signal enhancement system with dynamic range compression and modulation index expansion Patent
Video signal enhancement of signal component representing brightness of scene element in low contras
Television signal processing system Patent
Video signal processing system for sampling video brightness level
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