We demonstrate optical coherence tomography based on an SU(1,1) nonlinear interferometer with high-gain parametric down-conversion. For imaging and sensing applications, this scheme promises to outperform previous experiments working at low parametric gain, since higher photon fluxes provide lower integration times for obtaining high-quality images. In this way one can avoid using single-photon detectors or CCD cameras with very high sensitivities, and standard spectrometers can be used instead. Other advantages are: higher sensitivity to small loss and amplification before detection, so that the detected light power considerably exceeds the probing one.
@article{arxiv.2006.02314,
title = {Optical Coherence Tomography with a nonlinear interferometer in the high parametric gain regime},
author = {Gerard J. Machado and Gaetano Frascella and Juan P. Torres and Maria V. Chekhova},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.02314},
year = {2020}
}