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Phase estimation with potentially large phase values, i.e., with large dynamic range, has many applications in quantum metrology, for example to atomic clocks. A recently proposed phase estimation scheme approaches the Heisenberg scaling in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-17 Tyler G. Thurtell , Akimasa Miyake

Radio orbital angular momentum (OAM) communications require accurate alignment between the transmit and receive beam directions. Accordingly, a key feature of OAM receivers is the ability to reliably estimate the angle of arrival (AoA) of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-19 Wen-Xuan Long , Rui Chen , Marco Moretti , Jiandong Li

Communication using orbital angular momentum (OAM) modes has recently received a considerable interest in free space optical (FSO) communications. Propagating OAM modes through free space may be subject to atmospheric turbulence (AT)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-08 El-Mehdi Amhoud , Marwa Chafii , Ahmad Nimr , Gerhard Fettweis

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light provides an unbounded set of orthogonal modes for ultrahigh-capacity optical information processing. However, current OAM detection schemes typically rely on light interference or diffraction,…

Any practical experiment utilising the innate D-dimensional entanglement of the orbital angular momentum (OAM) state space of photons is subject to the modal capacity of the detection system. We show that given such a constraint, the number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 J. Romero , D. Giovannini , S. Franke-Anold , S. M. Barnett , M. J. Padgett

We propose a mechanism to use nonlinearity arising from inter-particle interactions to significantly enhance rotation sensitivity of matter-wave interferometers. The method relies on modifying Sagnac interferometers by introducing a weak…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2013-04-24 M. Kolár , T. Opatrný , Kunal K. Das

Injecting a non-Gaussian (Fock or Shr\"odinger cat) quantum state into the dark port of a two-arm interferometer and a strong classical light into the bright one, it is possible, in principle, to detect a given phase shift unambiguously…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-05-14 V. L. Gorshenin , F. Ya. Khalili

Detecting the faint signal of continuous gravitational waves (CWs) stands as a major frontier in gravitational-wave astronomy, pushing the need for detectors whose sensitivity exceeds the standard quantum limit (SQL). Here, we propose an…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2025-09-16 Xinyang Yu , W. Vincent Liu , Xiaopeng Li

Quantum metrology employs quantum resources to enhance the measurement sensitivity beyond that can be achieved classically. While multi-photon entangled NOON states can in principle beat the shot-noise limit and reach the Heisenberg limit,…

We use a $^{87}\text{Rb}$ atomic vapor, suitable for an optically-pumped magnetometer (OPM) in Earth-field conditions, to study the noise properties of three strategies for generating pulsed optical pumping. We compare a frequency-modulated…

Light beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) have led to stunning applications in various fields from quantum information to microscopy. In this letter, we examine OAM from the recently discovered high-harmonic generation (HHG) in…

Most adaptive optics (AO) systems using pyramid wavefront sensors (PyWFS) to estimate the phase of the pupil field use mechanical modulation of the beam in order to increase the dynamic range in low-order modes so the PyWFS can usefully…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-31 Richard Frazin

Quantum enhanced sensing is a powerful technique in which nonclassical states are used to improve the sensitivity of a measurement. For enhanced mechanical displacement sensing, squeezed states of light have been shown to reduce the photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-07-05 Jeremy B. Clark , Florent Lecocq , Raymond W. Simmonds , José Aumentado , John D. Teufel

We analyze noise in a quantum-enhanced fiber optic gyroscope (FOG), focusing on one of the leading sources of phase uncertainty - uncorrelated photon saturation. Taking a squeezed state input as a source for N00N states, we compute the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-27 Stefan Evans , Joanna Ptasinski

We introduce a new method to generate and tune the optical orbital angular momentum of a focused Gaussian beam passing through the optical superlattice under the electro-optic effect. The orbital angular momentum (OAM) arises from the curl…

Optics · Physics 2011-08-29 Jie Wang , Jianhong Shi , Linghao Tian , Xianfeng Chen

We elucidate the consequences of a phase-matching theory that describes second-harmonic generation of two non-collinear incident light beams that carry orbital angular momentum (OAM). More specifically, the two incident beams generate a…

Optics · Physics 2013-09-06 Thomas Roger , Julius J. F. Heitz , Ewan. M. Wright , Daniele Faccio

The angular momentum propagated by a beam of radiation has two contributions: spin angular momentum (SAM) and orbital angular momentum (OAM). SAM corresponds to wave polarisation, while OAM-carrying beams are characterized by a phase which…

A Michelson-type interferometer with two-mode squeezed coherent state input is considered. Such an interferometer has a better phase sensitivity over the shot-noise limit by a factor of $e^{2r}$, where $r$ is the squeezing parameter [Phys.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-03 Stav Haldar , Pratik J. Barge , Xiao-Qi Xiao , Hwang Lee

We study the sensitivity of phase estimation in a lossy Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) using two general, and practical, resources generated by a laser and a nonlinear optical medium with passive optimal elements, which are readily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-07 Changhun Oh , Su-Yong Lee , Hyunchul Nha , Hyunseok Jeong

The orbital angular momentum (OAM) wireless communication technique is emerging as one of potential techniques for the Sixth generation (6G) wireless communication system. The most advantage of OAM wireless communication technique is the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-12-10 Xusheng Xiong , Hanqiong Lou , Xiaohu Ge