Detection Loss Tolerant Supersensitive Phase Measurement with an SU(1,1) Interferometer

In an unseeded SU(1,1) interferometer composed of two cascaded degenerate parametric amplifiers, with direct detection at the output, we demonstrate a phase sensitivity overcoming the shot noise limit by 2.3 dB. The interferometer is strongly unbalanced, with the parametric gain of the second amplif...

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Published in:Physical review letters 2017-12, Vol.119 (22), p.223604-223604, Article 223604
Main Authors: Manceau, Mathieu, Leuchs, Gerd, Khalili, Farid, Chekhova, Maria
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Language:English
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Summary:In an unseeded SU(1,1) interferometer composed of two cascaded degenerate parametric amplifiers, with direct detection at the output, we demonstrate a phase sensitivity overcoming the shot noise limit by 2.3 dB. The interferometer is strongly unbalanced, with the parametric gain of the second amplifier exceeding the gain of the first one by a factor of 2, which makes the scheme extremely tolerant to detection losses. We show that by increasing the gain of the second amplifier, the phase supersensitivity of the interferometer can be preserved even with detection losses as high as 80%. This finding can considerably improve the state-of-the-art interferometry, enable sub-shot-noise phase sensitivity in spectral ranges with inefficient detection, and allow extension to quantum imaging.
ISSN:0031-9007
1079-7114
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.119.223604