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Multi-Photon Interference and Metrology

Optics 2017-10-17 v3 Quantum Physics

Abstract

Recently, Motes et al. proposed in Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 170802 (2015) a linear optics interferometer with N identical single photon input states as a tool for sub-shot-noise phase estimation which does not require NOON states sources. This thesis investigates how the degree of distinguishability between the input photonic spectra affects the interferometric phase sensitivity, by employing the results obtained by Tamma and Laibacher in Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 243601 (2015). Remarkably, the obtained results show, that for small phases, the phase sensitivity in the case of completely distinguishable photons is identical to the one in the case of identical photons considered by Motes et al. apart from a constant factor that is independent of the number N of input photons. Consequently, multiphoton interference does not provide in the scheme proposed by Motes et al. any sub-shot-noise sensitivity for a large number N of photons.

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@article{arxiv.1710.03805,
  title  = {Multi-Photon Interference and Metrology},
  author = {Olaf Zimmermann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.03805},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

Bachelor Thesis submitted on the 12th of June 2015 with minor revisions

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