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Weak measurement enables faithful amplification and high precision measurement of small physical parameters and is under intensive investigation as an effective tool in metrology and for addressing foundational questions in quantum…

Ultra-sensitive measurement of the magneto-optical rotation, due to interaction of linearly-polarized light passing through room-temperature Rb 85 atoms, in response to change in longitudinal magnetic field (\delta B_z ) is demonstrated…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-04 T. J. Vineeth Francis , Rashmi Ranjan Suna , P. K. Madhu , Nirmal K. Viswanathan , G. Rajalakshmi

Weak value amplification (WVA) is a metrological protocol that amplifies ultra-small physical effects. However, the amplified outcomes necessarily occur with highly suppressed probabilities, leading to the extensive debate on whether the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-19 Liang Xu , Zexuan Liu , Animesh Datta , George C. Knee , Jeff S. Lundeen , Yan-qing Lu , Lijian Zhang

Weak value amplification is a classical phenomenon that can enhance the sensitivity of a measurement through clever use of interference. The most well-known paradigm of weak value amplification makes use of a Gaussian pulse, which is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-08 Filippo M Miatto

The advantages of light and matter-wave Sagnac interferometers -- large area on one hand and high rotational sensitivity per unit area on the other -- can be combined utilizing ultra-slow light in cold atomic gases. While a group-velocity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Zimmer , M. Fleischhauer

The weak measurements based amplification of ultra-small phase was proposed in our previous work. Due to the technical imperfections, the ability of amplification is usually limited in practice. Here we introduce the concept of cascaded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Meng-Jun Hu , Yong-Sheng Zhang

We report the implementation of a highly sensitive beam displacer based on the concept of weak value amplification that allows to displace the centroid of a Gaussian beam a distance much smaller than its beam width without the need to use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-08 Luis José Salazar-Serrano , David Guzmán , Alejandra Valencia , Juan P. Torres

The polarisation Sagnac speedmeter interferometer has the potential to replace the Michelson interferometer as the instrumental basis for future generations of ground-based gravitational wave detectors. The quantum noise benefit of this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 A. P Spencer , B. W Barr , A. S. Bell , J. Briggs , P. Dupej , S. H. Huttner , B. Sorazu , J. Wright , K. A. Strain

We demonstrate a wavefront sensor based on the compressive sensing, single-pixel camera. Using a high-resolution spatial light modulator (SLM) as a variable waveplate, we weakly couple an optical field's transverse-position and polarization…

Optics · Physics 2014-07-30 Gregory A. Howland , Daniel J. Lum , John C. Howell

We present an investigation into the tilt sensitivity of the canonical, optical, weak-value amplification device (COWVAD), introduced by Duck, Stevenson, and Sudarshan in 1989, for potential application in a Coriolis vibratory gyroscope…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-15 Garrett Josemans , Benjamin Baldwin , John E. Gray , Patrick Graves , Kevin Bertschinger

The weak measurement proposed by Aharonov and his colleagues extracts information of a physical quantity of the system by the post selection as the shifts of the argument of the probe wavefunction. The shift is called the weak value and is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-05-14 Yuki Susa , Yutaka Shikano , Akio Hosoya

We have measured the photothermal effect in a single cross-polarized interferometer at audio frequencies (5 Hz - 4 kHz). In a Fabry-Perot interferometer, light in one polarization is chopped to periodically heat the interferometer mirrors,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Shanti R. Rao

Sagnac interferometry can provide a significant improvement in signal-to-noise ratio compared to conventional magnetic imaging based on the magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE). We show that this improvement is sufficient to allow…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-07-24 Saba Karimeddiny , Thow Min Jerald Cham , Orion Smedley , Daniel C. Ralph , Yunqiu Kelly Luo

The quantification of simultaneously present weak polarization anisotropy effects are of practical interest from polarimetric and metrological perspective. Recently, in Phys. Rev. A 103, 053518, we experimentally demonstrated a classical…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-23 Niladri Modak , Sayantan Das , Priyanuj Bordoloi , Nirmalya Ghosh

In a quantum-noise limited system, weak-value amplification using post-selection normally does not produce more sensitive measurements than standard methods for ideal detectors: the increased weak value is compensated by the reduced power…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-09 Courtney Krafczyk , Andrew N. Jordan , Michael E. Goggin , Paul G. Kwiat

A fundamental limit to the sensitivity of optical interferometers is imposed by Brownian thermal fluctuations of the mirrors' surfaces. This thermal noise can be reduced by using larger beams which "average out" the random fluctuations of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-05-29 T. Hong , J. Miller , H. Yamamoto , Y. Chen , R. Adhikari

Using weak values amplification angular resolution limits, we theoretically investigate the gravitational sensing of objects. By inserting a force-sensing pendulum into a weak values interferometer, the optical response can sense…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2020-09-04 Andrew N. Jordan , Philippe Lewalle , Jeff Tollaksen , John C. Howell

We have developed a new technique for photothermal displacement spectroscopy that is potentially orders of magnitude more sensitive than conventional methods. We use a single Fabry-Perot resonator to enhance both the intensity of the pump…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-11-10 Eric D. Black , Ivan S. Grudinin , Shanti R. Rao , Kenneth G. Libbrecht

The use of structured ultrashort pulses with coupled spatiotemporal properties is emerging as a key tool for ultrafast manipulation. Ultrafast vector beams are opening exciting opportunities in different fields such as microscopy,…

We present a scheme for achieving amplification of the displacement of the mirror in optomechanical cavity using single-photon postselection where the mirror is initially prepared in squeezed coherent state. The amplification depends on the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-07 Gang Li , Li-Bo Chen , Xiu-Min Lin , He-Shan Song
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