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Balanced homodyning, heterodyning and unbalanced homodyning are the three well-known sampling techniques used in quantum optics to characterize all possible photonic sources in continuous-variable quantum information theory. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-31 Yong Siah Teo , Hyunseok Jeong , Luis L. Sanchez-Soto

We study the effect of homodyne detector visibility on the measurement of quadrature squeezing for a spatially multi-mode source of two-mode squeezed light. Sources like optical parametric oscillators (OPO) typically produce squeezing in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-20 Prasoon Gupta , Rory W. Speirs , Kevin M. Jones , Paul D. Lett

To achieve a distributed reflectivity measurement along an optical fiber, we develop a simplified cost-effective configuration of optical correlation- (or coherence-) domain reflectometry based on a synthesized optical coherence function by…

We introduce a technique to determine photon correlations of optical light fields in real time. The method is based on ultrafast phase-randomized homodyne detection and allows us to follow the temporal evolution of the second-order…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-10-12 Carolin Lüders , Johannes Thewes , Marc Aßmann

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

Efficient measurement of high-dimensional quantum correlations, especially spatial ones, is essential for quantum technologies, given their inherent high dimensionality and easy manipulation with basic optical elements. We propose and…

Quantum imaging with spatially entangled photons offers advantages such as enhanced spatial resolution, robustness against noise, and counter-intuitive phenomena, while a biphoton spatial aberration generally degrades its performance.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-10 Yi Zheng , Zhao-Di Liu , Jian-Shun Tang , Jin-Shi Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Quantum super-resolution involves resolving two sources below the Rayleigh limit using quantum optics. Such a technique would allow high-precision inter-satellite positioning and tracking on communication and navigation constellations. Due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-17 Ronakraj K Gosalia , Robert Malaney , Ryan Aguinaldo , Jonathan Green

In this paper, we propose an experimentally viable scheme to enhance the sensitivity of force detection in a hybrid optomechanical setup assisted by squeezed vacuum injection, beyond the standard quantum limit (SQL). The scheme is based on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-29 H. Allahverdi , Ali Motazedifard , A. Dalafi , D. Vitali , M. H. Naderi

Real-time controls based on quantum measurements are powerful tools for various quantum protocols. However, their experimental realization have been limited by mode-mismatch between temporal mode of quadrature measurement and that heralded…

Homodyne X-ray diffraction signals produced by classical light and classical detectors are given by the modulus square of the charge density in momentum space $\left|\sigma(\mathbf{q})\right|^{2}$, missing its phase which is required in…

Quantum communication protocols require efficient detection schemes to maximize the information transfer rate between the sender and the receiver. To this aim, we have demonstrated that weak-field receivers, merging wave-like and…

In arXiv:2503.00188 we introduced broadband pulsed (BBP) homodyne measurements as a generalization of standard pulsed homodyne quadrature measurements. BBP can take advantage of detectors such as calorimeters that have the potential for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-27 Emanuel Knill , Ezad Shojaee , James R. van Meter , Akira Kyle , Scott Glancy

Generation and manipulation of many-body entangled states is of considerable interest, for applications in quantum simulation or sensing, for example. Measurement and verification of the resulting many-body state presents a formidable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-12 Jonathan Kohler , Justin A. Gerber , Emma Deist , Dan M. Stamper-Kurn

We show that data from homodyne-like detection based on photon-number-resolving (PNR) detectors may be effectively exploited to reconstruct quantum states of light using the tomographic reconstruction techniques originally developed for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-03 Stefano Olivares , Alessia Allevi , Giovanni Caiazzo , Matteo G. A. Paris , Maria Bondani

We revisit the problem of preparing a mechanical oscillator in the vicinity of its quantum-mechanical ground state by means of feedback cooling based on continuous optical detection of the oscillator position. In the parameter regime…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-18 Hojat Habibi , Emil Zeuthen , Majid Ghanaatshoar , Klemens Hammerer

What knowledge can be obtained from the record of a continuous measurement about the quantum state the measured system was in at the beginning of the measurement? The task of quantum state retrodiction, the inverse of the more common state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-30 Jonas Lammers , Klemens Hammerer

The local observables of the quantised electromagnetic field near a mirror-coated interface depend strongly on the properties of the media on {\em both} sides. In macroscopic quantum electrodynamics, this fact is taken into account with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-20 Benjamin Dawson , Nicholas Furtak-Wells , Thomas Mann , Gin Jose , Almut Beige

We suggest a multiatom cavity quantum electrodynamics system for the weak magnetic field detection based on Faraday rotation with intracavity electromagnetically induced transparency. Our study demonstrates that the collective coupling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-10 Qiaolin Zhang , Hui Sun , Shuangli Fan , Hong Guo

Raman heterodyne spectroscopy is a powerful tool for characterizing the energy and dynamics of spins. The technique uses an optical pump to transfer coherence from a spin transition to an optical transition where the coherent emission is…