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The high inertial sensitivity of atom interferometers has been used to build accelerometers and gyrometers but this sensitivity makes these interferometers very sensitive to the laboratory seismic noise. This seismic noise induces a phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Alain Miffre , Marion Jacquey , Matthias Büchner , Gérard Trénec , Jacques Vigué

In this work, a general theoretical framework is presented to explain the formation of the phase signal in an X-ray microscope integrated with a grating interferometer, which simultaneously enables the high spatial resolution imaging and…

Optics · Physics 2022-09-28 Jiecheng Yang , Yongshuai Ge , Dong Liang , Hairong Zheng

Because of their low energy content, microwave signals at the single-photon level are extremely challenging to measure. Guided by recent progress in single-photon optomechanics and hybrid optomechanical systems, we propose a multimode…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-18 Keye Zhang , Francesco Bariani , Ying Dong , Weiping Zhang , Pierre Meystre

We propose a scheme in which an arbitrary incidence can be made perfectly reflected/transmitted if a phase setup is adjusted under a specific condition. We analyze the intracavity field variation as well as the output field with changing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Miaodi Guo , Xuemei Su

In this work we study the phase sensitivity of generic linear interferometric schemes using Gaussian resources and measurements. Our formalism is based on the Fisher information. This allows us to separate the contributions of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 Antonio A. Valido , Juan José García-Ripoll

Multimode fibers are attractive for a variety of applications such as internet data transfer, data center hubs, micromanipulation, optogenetics and other biomedical applications. A major hurdle for imaging through multimode fibers is the…

Astronomers usually need the highest angular resolution possible, but the blurring effect of diffraction imposes a fundamental limit on the image quality from any single telescope. Interferometry allows light collected at widely-separated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 John D. Monnier , Ronald J. Allen

Quantum metrology promises greater sensitivity for optical phase measurements than could ever be achieved classically. Here we present a theory of the phase sensitivity for the general case where the detection probability is given by an $N$…

Optical levitation of nanoscale particles has emerged as a platform for precision measurement. Extremely low damping, together with optical interferometric position detection, makes possible exquisite force measurement and promises…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-24 Chris Dawson , James Bateman

Coherent beam combination of multiple fibres can be used to overcome limitations such as the power handling capability of single fibre configurations. In such a scheme, the focal intensity profile is critically dependent upon the relative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-02 Ben Mills , James A. Grant-Jacob , Matthew Praeger , Robert. W. Eason , Johan Nilsson , Michalis N. Zervas

We propose an illumination strategy for interferometric imaging that allows for robust depth recovery from intensity-only measurements. For an array with colocated sources and receivers, we show that all the possible interferometric data…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Miguel Moscoso , Alexei Novikov , George Papanicolaou , Chrysoula Tsogka

Interferometry is a widely-used technique for precision measurements in both classical and quantum contexts. One way to increase the precision of phase measurements, for example in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI), is to use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-07 Stefan Ataman , Anca Preda , Radu Ionicioiu

The frequency comb of a multimode interferometer offers exceptional scalability potential for field-encoded quantum information. However, the staple field detection method, homodyne detection, cannot access quantum information in the whole…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Bakhao Dioum , Virginia D'Auria , Alessandro Zavatta , Olivier Pfister , Giuseppe Patera

Conventional ground-based optical telescopes, even those with large apertures, primarily observe stars, close binaries, and multiple systems as unresolved point sources through photometric measurements. Spectroscopy can identify multiple…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-10 Km Nitu Rai , Neelam Panwar , Jeewan C Pandey , T S Kumar , Subrata Sarangi , Prasenjit Saha

Atmospheric turbulence is a serious problem for ground-based interferometers. It places tight limits on both sensitivity and measurement precision. Phase referencing is a method to overcome these limitations via the use of a bright…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Benjamin F. Lane , Matthew W. Muterspaugh

An ${\rm SU(1,1)}$ interferometer uses a sequence of two optical parametric amplifiers for achieving sub-shot-noise sensitivity to a phase shift introduced in between. We present the first realization of a wide-field ${\rm SU(1,1)}$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-16 G. Frascella , E. E. Mikhailov , N. Takanashi , R. V. Zakharov , O. V. Tikhonova , M. V. Chekhova

In this article, we demonstrate a scheme capable of two-phase measurement, i.e. the simultaneous measurement of the two phase-shifts occurring in two independent Mach-Zehnder interferometers using one intensity detector. Our scheme utilizes…

Optics · Physics 2015-06-03 Utsab Khadka , Jiteng Sheng , Xihua Yang , Min Xiao

Binary decision theory has been applied to the general interferometric problem. Optimal detection scheme-according to the Neyman-Pearson criterion-has been considered for different phase-enhanced states of radiation field, and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Matteo G. A. Paris

Enhanced Raman scattering can be obtained by injecting a seeded light field which is correlated with the initially prepared collective atomic excitation. This Raman amplification process can be used to realize atom-light hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Zhao-Dan Chen , Chun-Hua Yuan , Hong-Mei Ma , Dong Li , L. Q. Chen , Z. Y. Ou , Weiping Zhang

We characterize operationally meaningful quantum gains in a paradigmatic model of lossless multiple-phase interferometry and stress insufficiency of the analysis based solely on the concept of quantum Fisher information. We show that the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-28 Wojciech Gorecki , Rafal Demkowicz-Dobrzanski