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We present a scheme for achieving macroscopic quantum superpositions in optomechanical systems by using single photon postselection and detecting them with nested interferometers. This method relieves many of the challenges associated with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-10-08 Brian Pepper , Roohollah Ghobadi , Evan Jeffrey , Christoph Simon , Dirk Bouwmeester

Coherent-state-based phase estimation is a fruitful testbed for the field of precision measurements since coherent states are robust to decoherence when compared with exotic quantum states. The seminal work done by Caves…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-03 Jian-Dong Zhang , Zi-Jing Zhang , Long-Zhu Cen , Jun-Yan Hu , Yuan Zhao

In recent years nanoscale coherent imaging has emerged as an indispensable imaging modality allowing to surpass the resolution limit given by classical imaging optics. At the same time, attosecond science has experienced enormous progress…

Phase retrieval, or the process of recovering phase information in reciprocal space to reconstruct images from measured intensity alone, is the underlying basis to a variety of imaging applications including coherent diffraction imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-15 Mathew J. Cherukara , Youssef S. G. Nashed , Ross J. Harder

We improve the accuracy of the GN Polynomial Closed-Form Model (PCFM) by incorporating the spectral NLI PSD and the coherent accumulation along the link. The proposed model is capable of accurately evaluating the NLI over any rectangular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Yifeng Gao , Yanchao Jiang , Pierluigi Poggiolini

Interference is fundamental to wave dynamics and quantum mechanics. The quantum wave properties of particles are exploited in metrology using atom interferometers, allowing for high-precision inertia measurements [1, 2]. Furthermore, the…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2010-09-14 Christian Gross , Tilman Zibold , Eike Nicklas , Jerome Esteve , Markus K. Oberthaler

We theoretically propose a novel quantum interferometer in which the NOON state interferometer (NOONI) is combined with the Hong-Ou-Mandel interferometer (HOMI). This interferometer combined the advantages of both the NOONI that depends on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-17 Baihong Li , Changhua Chen , Boxin Yuan , Xiangying Hao , Rui-Bo Jin

Stereo matching provides depth estimation from binocular images for downstream applications. These applications mostly take video streams as input and require temporally consistent depth maps. However, existing methods mainly focus on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Jiaxi Zeng , Chengtang Yao , Yuwei Wu , Yunde Jia

This work presents techniques which can allow low-cost phased-array receivers to be reconfigured as interferometric imagers and thereby reducing cost. Since traditional phased arrays power combine incoming signals prior to digitization,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-21 Vikas Chauhan

Current and future ground-based interferometers require knowledge of the atmospheric time constant t_0, but this parameter has diverse definitions. Moreover, adequate techniques for monitoring t_0 still have to be implemented. We derive a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 A. Kellerer , A. Tokovinin

We analyze an intensity interferometry measurement carried out with two point-like detectors facing a distant source (e.g., a star) that may be partially occluded by an absorptive object (e.g., a planet). Such a measurement, based on the…

Optics · Physics 2013-11-26 Dmitry V. Strekalov , Baris I. Erkmen , Nan Yu

We combine matter-wave interferometry and cavity optomechanics to propose a coherent matter--light interface based on mechanical motion at the quantum level. We demonstrate a mechanism that is able to transfer non-classical features…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-11 André Xuereb , Hendrik Ulbricht , Mauro Paternostro

Hybrid photonic integration exploits complementary strengths of different material platforms, thereby offering superior performance and design flexibility in comparison to monolithic approaches. This applies in particular to multi-chip…

Partially-coherent, quasi-monochromatic optical fields are fully described by their Mutual Optical Intensity (MOI) or the phase-space equivalent, the Generalised Radiance (GR). This paper reports on the application of a propagation-based…

Optics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. K. Aruldoss , N. Dragomir , K. A. Nugent , A. Roberts

The coherent control of wave absorption has important applications in areas such as energy harvesting, imaging, and sensing. However, most practical scenarios involve the absorption of partially coherent rather than fully coherent waves.…

Optics · Physics 2024-08-13 Cheng Guo , Shanhui Fan

We report a proof-of-concept demonstration of a tunable infrared (IR) optical coherence tomography (OCT) technique with detection of only visible range photons. Our method is based on the nonclassical interference of frequency correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-09 Anna V. Paterova , Hongzhi Yang , Chengwu An , Dmitry A. Kalashnikov , Leonid A. Krivitsky

We present in this letter a scheme for optical interferometry. We utilize coherent-beam-stimulated two-mode squeezed light, which interacts with a phase shifter and is then squeezed again before detection. Our theoretical device has the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 William N. Plick , Jonathan P. Dowling , G. S. Agarwal

Studying the coherence of an optical field is typically compartmentalized with respect to its different optical degrees of freedom (DoFs) -- spatial, temporal, and polarization. Although this traditional approach succeeds when the DoFs are…

High precision metrology systems based on heterodyne interferometry can measure position and attitude of objects to accuracies of picometer and nanorad, respectively. A frequently found feature of the general system design is the…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2013-04-22 Gerald Hechenblaikner

Coherent states in a projected Hilbert space have many useful properties. When there are conserved quantities, a representation of the entire Hilbert space is not necessary. The same issue arises when conditional observations are made with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-28 P. D. Drummond , M. D. Reid