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We propose a velocity sensor based on a two-memory Mach--Zehnder interferometer fed by a coherent probe and squeezed vacuum, read out by balanced homodyne detection. One memory is taken as a stationary reference, while the second memory…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-28 Mustafa Gündoğan , Arash Ahmadi , Markus Krutzik

Interferometers are widely used in imaging technologies to achieve enhanced spatial resolution, but require that the incoming photons be indistinguishable. In previous work, we built and analyzed color erasure detectors which expand the…

I propose a superoscillation measurement method for subdiffraction incoherent optical sources, with potential applications in astronomy, remote sensing, fluorescence microscopy, and spectroscopy. The proposal, based on coherent optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-10 Mankei Tsang

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

Quantum metrology employs quantum resources to achieve measurement precision beyond classical limits. This work investigates a Mach--Zehnder interferometer incorporating a Kerr nonlinear phase shifter, with photon-added two-mode squeezed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-20 Zekun Zhao , Qingqian Kang , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Xin Su , Liyun Hu

Stable narrow-linewidth light sources play a significant role in many precision optical systems. Electro-optic laser frequency stabilization systems, such as the well-known Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) technique, have been key components of…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-05 Mohamad Hossein Idjadi , Kwangwoong Kim

We present a numerical study of the spatial coherence of light that is radiated from a dilute ensemble of atoms. The spatial coherence is established as a result of the collective (cooperative) coupling of the atoms to the light, and is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-27 Deniz Yavuz , Anirudh Yadav , David Gold , Thad Walker , Mark Saffman

The visibilities of second-order (single-photon) and fourth-order (two-photon) interference have been observed in a Young's double-slit experiment using light generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion and a photon-counting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 A. F. Abouraddy , M. B. Nasr , B. E. A. Saleh , A. V. Sergienko , M. C. Teich

Most integrated evanescent-field photonic sensors measure changes in either the real part or the imaginary part of the complex refractive index of the sample, i.e., refraction or absorption. Here we propose and experimentally demonstrate a…

We design and fabricate an on-chip laser source that produces a directional beam with low spatial coherence. The lasing modes are based on the axial orbit in a stable cavity and have good directionality. To reduce the spatial coherence of…

Photonic integrated circuits (PICs) play a pivotal role in many applications. Particularly powerful are circuits based on meshes of reconfigurable Mach-Zehnder interferometers as they enable active processing of light. Various possibilities…

A typical application for laser interferometers is a precision measurement of length changes that result in interferometric phase shifts. Such phase changes are typically predicted numerically, due to the com- plexity of the overlap…

Optics · Physics 2014-06-06 Gudrun Wanner , Gerhard Heinzel

Coherent light sources, such as free electron lasers, provide bright beams for biology, chemistry, physics, and advanced technological applications. Increasing the brightness of these sources requires progressively larger devices, with the…

This letter presents a dual quadrature phasemeter, an implementation of a phase-locked loop designed to track the phase of homodyne and heterodyne inter-satellite laser links. The dual quadrature phasemeters use dual quadrature optical…

Optics · Physics 2024-10-30 Callum S. Sambridge , Kirk McKenzie

In this paper, we investigate the influence of the symmetry of the biphoton wavefunction on the coincidence measurement of the generalized Mach-Zehnder (MZ) interferometer, where there are a temporal and frequency shift operations between…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-01 Nicolas Fabre

We study the effect of quantum motion in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer where ultracold, two-level atoms cross a $\pi/2 $-$\pi $-$\pi/2$ configuration of separated, laser illuminated regions. Explicit and exact expressions are obtained for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Lizuain , S. V. Mousavi , D. Seidel , J. G. Muga

Spectra comprised of hundreds of time-components for absorption path lengths up to 130 km have been recorded around 1050 nm by combining two recent techniques, intracavity laser spectroscopy with vertical external cavity surface emitting…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Nathalie Picqué , Guy Guelachvili , Alexander A. Kachanov

A major limitation of laser interferometers using continuous wave lasers are parasitic light fields, such as ghost beams, scattered or stray light, which can cause non-linear noise. This is especially relevant for laser interferometric…

The method of digital processing of laser radiation interference pattern with the digital microscope and original two-beam interferometer with the phase Bragg grating as the amplitude beam splitter for a quantitative determination of the…

Optics · Physics 2012-10-17 Eugene A. Tikhonov

We propose a possibility to improve the current precision measurements on compact binaries. When the orbital axis is almost perpendicular to our line of sight, a pulsar behind its companion can form two strong-lensing images. These images…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-03-25 Ue-Li Pen , I-Sheng Yang