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Conventional absorption spectroscopy relies on coherent laser sources, and in turn suffers from the inherent limitation of shot noise, especially in estimating weak absorption. Here we propose a measurement strategy with correlated photons…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-17 Zhucheng Zhang , Xue Zhang , Jing Liu , Hui Dong

We present a comprehensive study on the spatio temporal weak measurement of a chiral ultrafast optical pulse. We create a chiral vector wave packet by transmitting ultrashort laser pulse via a birefringent or magneto-optic medium. Employing…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-05 Sahil Sahoo , Andre Yaroshevsky , Dima Cheskis , Yuri Gorodetski

We examine, both experimentally and theoretically, an interaction of tightly focused polarized light with a slit on a metal surface supporting plasmon-polariton modes. Remarkably, this simple system can be highly sensitive to the…

Weak values are typically obtained experimentally by performing weak measurements, which involve weak interactions between the measured system and a probe. However, the determination of weak values does not necessarily require weak…

We experimentally investigate the relative advantages of implementing weak-value-based metrology versus standard methods. While the techniques outlined herein apply more generally, we measure small optical beam deflections both using a…

Using the profound interferometric philosophy of weak value amplification, we propose a simple, general and a robust polarization method for the amplification and quantification of small magnitudes of all possible polarization anisotropy…

Optics · Physics 2021-06-09 Niladri Modak , Athira B S , Ankit Kumar Singh , Nirmalya Ghosh

Measurements are crucial in quantum mechanics, in fundamental research as well as in applicative fields like quantum metrology, quantum-enhanced measurements and other quantum technologies. In the recent years, weak-interaction-based…

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

The challenge of imaging low-density objects in an electron microscope without causing beam damage is significant in modern TEM. This is especially true for life science imaging, where the sample, rather than the instrument, still…

Optics · Physics 2025-01-29 Francisco Vega Ibáñez , Jo Verbeeck

In this work we propose an efficient and accurate multi-scale optical simulation algorithm by applying a numerical version of slowly varying envelope approximation in FEM. Specifically, we employ the fast iterative method to quickly compute…

Optics · Physics 2024-12-03 Fan Xiao , Jingwei Wang , Zhongfei Xiong , Yuntian Chen

We consider the phase sensing via weak optical coherent state at quantum limit precision. A new detection scheme for the phase estimation is proposed which is inspired by the suboptimal quantum measurement in coherent optical communication.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-28 Shuro Izumi , Masahiro Takeoka , Kentaro Wakui , Mikio Fujiwara , Kazuhiro Ema , Masahide Sasaki

To observe CP-violating asymmetries through the interference of a weaker amplitude with a stronger one in $\bo \to D^{(*)} \pi$ and $\ob \to D^{(*)} \pi$ decays, one must collect enough events that the intensity associated with the weaker…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-17 Denis Suprun , Cheng-Wei Chiang , Jonathan L. Rosner

We consider the scenario where important signals are not strong enough to be separable from a large amount of noise. Such weak signals commonly exist in large-scale data analysis and play vital roles in many biomedical applications.…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-26 X. Jessie Jeng , Yifei Hu

In many areas of imaging science, it is difficult to measure the phase of linear measurements. As such, one often wishes to reconstruct a signal from intensity measurements, that is, perform phase retrieval. In this paper, we provide a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-09-13 Boris Alexeev , Afonso S. Bandeira , Matthew Fickus , Dustin G. Mixon

The weak measurement wavefront sensor detects the phase gradient of light like the Shack-Hartmann sensor does. However, the use of one thin birefringent crystal to displace light beams results in a wavelength-dependent phase difference…

Optics · Physics 2022-05-27 Yi Zheng , Mu Yang , Zheng-Hao Liu , Jin-Shi Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

A recently proposed phase-estimation protocol that is based on measuring the parity of a two-mode squeezed-vacuum state at the output of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer shows that Cram\'{e}r-Rao bound sensitivity can be obtained [P.\ M.\…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-09-10 Keith R. Motes , Petr M. Anisimov , Jonathan P. Dowling

Active polarimetric imagery is a powerful tool for accessing the information present in a scene. Indeed, the polarimetric images obtained can reveal polarizing properties of the objects that are not avalaible using conventional imaging…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2016-08-16 Muriel Roche , Philippe Réfrégier

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 propose a novel approach in a search for the neutron electric dipole moment (EDM) by taking advantage of signal amplification in a weak measurement, known as weak value amplification. Considering an analogy to the weak measurement that…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-05-18 Daiki Ueda , Teppei Kitahara

Digital camera pixels measure image intensities by converting incident light energy into an analog electrical current, and then digitizing it into a fixed-width binary representation. This direct measurement method, while conceptually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Atul Ingle , Trevor Seets , Mauro Buttafava , Shantanu Gupta , Alberto Tosi , Mohit Gupta , Andreas Velten