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Resolution and sensitivity of a Fabry-Perot interferometer with a photon-number-resolving detector

Quantum Physics 2013-05-29 v2

Abstract

With photon-number resolving detectors, we show compression of interference fringes with increasing photon numbers for a Fabry-Perot interferometer. This feature provides a higher precision in determining the position of the interference maxima compared to a classical detection strategy. We also theoretically show supersensitivity if N-photon states are sent into the interferometer and a photon-number resolving measurement is performed.

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@article{arxiv.0905.1085,
  title  = {Resolution and sensitivity of a Fabry-Perot interferometer with a photon-number-resolving detector},
  author = {Christoph F. Wildfeuer and Aaron J. Pearlman and Jun Chen and Jingyun Fan and Alan Migdall and Jonathan P. Dowling},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0905.1085},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

8 pages, 12 figures, 1 table, minor extensions, title changed, new figures added, reference corrected