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We report on the implementation of a time-multiplexed click detection scheme to probe quantum correlations between different spatial optical modes. We demonstrate that such measurement setups can uncover nonclassical correlations in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-08 J. Sperling , M. Bohmann , W. Vogel , G. Harder , B. Brecht , V. Ansari , C. Silberhorn

We show that weak measurement can be used to "amplify" optical nonlinearities at the single- photon level, such that the effect of one properly post-selected photon on a classical beam may be as large as that of many un-post-selected…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-17 Amir Feizpour , Xingxing Xing , Aephraim M. Steinberg

Two-photon interference with independent classical sources, in which superposition of two indistinguishable two-photon paths plays a key role, is of limited visibility of interference fringes with a maximum value of 50%. By using a…

Optics · Physics 2016-12-21 Peilong Hong , Lei Xu , Zhaohui Zhai , Guoquan Zhang

Multi-photon absorption processes have a nonlinear dependence on the amplitude of the incident optical field i.e. the number of photons. However, multi-photon absorption is generally weak and multi-photon events occur with extremely low…

Precise measurements are the key to advances in all fields of science. Quantum entanglement shows higher sensitivity than achievable by classical methods. Most physical quantities including position, displacement, distance, angle, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Shi-Long Liu , Shi-Kai Liu , Yin-Hai Li , Dong-Sheng Ding , Guang-Can Guo , Bao-Sen Shi

We present a robust tool to analyze nonclassical properties of multimode twin-beam states in the mesoscopic photon-number domain. The measurements are performed by direct detection. The analysis exploits three different non-classicality…

Quantum lithography achieves phase super-resolution using fragile, experimentally challenging entangled states of light. We propose a scalable scheme for creating features narrower than classically achievable, with reduced use of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Shamir Rosen , Itai Afek , Yonatan Israel , Oron Ambar , Yaron Silberberg

All optical detectors to date annihilate photons upon detection, thus excluding repeated measurements. Here, we demonstrate a robust photon detection scheme which does not rely on absorption. Instead, an incoming photon is reflected off an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-16 Andreas Reiserer , Stephan Ritter , Gerhard Rempe

Multi-mode NOON states have been attracting increasing attentions recently for their abilities of obtaining supersensitive and superresolved measurements for simultaneous multiple-phase estimation. In this paper, four different methods of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-07-31 Lu Zhang , Kam Wai Clifford Chan

In this paper we examine the N-photon absorption properties of "N00N" states, a subclass of path entangled number states. We consider two cases. The first involves the N-photon absorption properties of the ideal N00N state, one that does…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-08-11 William N. Plick , Christoph F. Wildfeuer , Petr M. Anisimov , Jonathan P. Dowling

We introduce the first method to enable an optical amplification of a coherent Raman spectroscopy signal called radio frequency Doppler Raman spectroscopy. Doppler Raman measurements amplify the optical signals in coherent Raman…

Traditionally, spectroscopy is performed by examining the position of absorption lines. However, at frequencies near the transition frequency, additional information can be obtained from the phase shift. In this work we consider the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-14 Hossein T. Dinani , Manish K. Gupta , Jonathan P. Dowling , Dominic W. Berry

We report phase-coherent Doppler detection of optical dipole forces using large ion crystals in a Penning trap. The technique is based on laser Doppler velocimetry using a cycling transition in $^{9}$Be$^{+}$ near 313 nm and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. J. Biercuk , H. Uys , J. W. Britton , A. P. VanDevender , J. J. Bollinger

Optical imaging methods are typically restricted to a resolution of order of the probing light wavelength $\lambda_p$ by the Rayleigh diffraction limit. This limit can be circumvented by making use of multiphoton detection of correlated…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-01-06 Qurrat-ul-Ain Gulfam , Jörg Evers

We demonstrate accurate phase measurement from low photon level interference data using a constrained optimization method that takes into account the expected redundancy in the unknown phase function. This approach is shown to have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Mandeep Singh , Kedar Khare , Anand Kumar Jha , Shashi Prabhakar , R. P. Singh

Although the canonical phase of light, which is defined as the complement of photon number, has been described theoretically by a variety of distinct approaches, there have been no methods proposed for its measurement. Indeed doubts have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 K. L. Pregnell , D. T. Pegg

Nonclassicality, defined in the quantum optical sense, serves as a resource for photon-based quantum technologies. Therefore, certifying the nonclassicality of a quantum state is crucial for gauging its potential for quantum advantage.…

During the last decades, multi-pixel detectors have been developed capable of registering single photons. The newly developed Hybrid Photon Detector camera has a remarkable property that it has not only spatial but also temporal resolution.…

We implement a direct detection scheme based on hybrid photodetectors to experimentally investigate high-order correlations for detected photons by means of quantities that can be experimentally accessed. We show their usefulness in fully…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-20 Alessia Allevi , Stefano Olivares , Maria Bondani

We present a method for the experimental measurement of nonclassicality witnesses and demonstrate its application. Our proposal only requires the coherent displacement of the initial state, which can be achieved by overlapping the latter…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 T. Kiesel , W. Vogel