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Quantum metrology deals with improving the resolution of instruments that are otherwise limited by shot noise and it is therefore a promising avenue for enabling scientific breakthroughs. The advantage can be even more striking when quantum…

The availability of low frequency data is an important factor in the success of full waveform inversion (FWI) in the acoustic regime. The low frequencies help determine the kinematically relevant, low-wavenumber components of the velocity…

Geophysics · Physics 2016-01-21 Yunyue Elita Li , Laurent Demanet

We examine the effect of different sources of technical noise on inverse weak value-based precision phase measurements. We find that this type of measurement is similarly robust to technical noise as related experiments in the weak value…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-07 Kevin Lyons , John C. Howell , Andrew N. Jordan

Quantum optical sensors are ubiquitous in various fields of research, from biological or medical sensors to large-scale experiments searching for dark matter or gravitational waves. Gravitational-wave detectors have been very successful in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-11 Mikhail Korobko , Jan Südbeck , Sebastian Steinlechner , Roman Schnabel

With a laser interferometric gravitational-wave detector in separate free flying spacecraft, the only way to achieve detection is to mitigate the dominant noise arising from the frequency fluctuations of the lasers via postprocessing. The…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2022-04-27 Quentin Baghi , John Baker , Jacob Slutsky , James Ira Thorpe

The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) is an electronically steered low frequency ($<300$\,MHz) radio interferometer, with a `slew' time less than 8seconds. Low frequency ($\sim 100$\,MHz) radio telescopes are ideally suited for rapid-response…

Interferometers with kilometer-scale arms have been built for gravitational-wave detections on the ground; ones with much longer arms are being planned for space-based detection. One fundamental motivation for long baseline interferometry…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2020-07-06 Kentaro Somiya , Keisuke Goda , Yanbei Chen , Eugeniy E. Mikhailov

The double-pass interferometer scheme was proposed in Ref.\,[Light Sci. Appl. {\bf 7}, 11 (2018)] as the method of implementation of the quantum speed meter concept in future laser gravitational-wave (GW) detectors. Later it was shown in…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-03-14 L. A. Barinov , F. Ya. Khalili

Quantum interferometric sensing plays a crucial role in a wide range of applications, including quantum metrology, quantum imaging, and quantum lithography, where minute phase shifts carry valuable physical information. The strength of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-11 Samata Gokhale , Netanel P. Yaish , Michal Natan , Saar Levin , Yogesh Dandekar , Avi Pe'er

We show that anomalous dispersion characteristic of fast-light can be used to enhance the sensitivity of optical interferometry under certain conditions. In particular, we show that a dual-chamber Fabry-Perot interferometer with a shared…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. S. Shahriar , R. Tripathi , G. S. Pati , V. Gopal , M. Messall , K. Salit

X-ray Talbot-Lau interferometer has been used most widely to perform X-ray phase-contrast imaging with a conventional low-brilliance X-ray source, it yields high-sensitivity phase and dark-field images of sample producing low absorption…

Optics · Physics 2015-04-21 Shenghao Wang , Renfang Hu , Zhili Wang , Kun Gao , Kai Zhang , Atsushi Momose , Ziyu Wu

We present a proof-of-concept experiment aimed at increasing the sensitivity of temperature sensors implemented with Fiber Bragg gratings by making use of a weak value amplification scheme. The technique requires only linear optics elements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 L. J. Salazar-Serrano , D. Barrera , W. Amaya , S. Sales , V. Pruneri , J. P. Torres

Atomic interferometers measure forces and acceleration with exceptional precision. The conventional approach to atomic interferometry is to launch an atomic cloud into a ballistic trajectory and perform the wave-packet splitting in momentum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-23 Jonathan Nemirovsky , Rafi Weill , Ilan Meltzer , Yoav Sagi

Recent progress in quantum computing and the development of novel detector technologies for astrophysics is driving the need for high-gain, broadband, and quantum-limited amplifiers. We present a purely traveling-wave parametric amplifier…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-27 Nikita Klimovich , Peter Day , Shibo Shu , Byeong Ho Eom , Henry Leduc , Andrew Beyer

In the context of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA), the laser subsystems exhibit frequency fluctuations that introduce significant levels of noise into the measurements, surpassing the gravitational wave signal by several…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2024-01-15 Philipp Euringer , Niklas Houba , Gerald Hechenblaikner , Oliver Mandel , Francis Soualle , Walter Fichter

Recently, biased weak measurement(BWM) has shown higher precision than both conventional measurement and standard weak measurement(SWM) in optical metrology. In this paper, we propose a scheme of detecting rotation velocity in Sagnac's…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-10-22 Jing-Hui Huang , Xiang-Yun Hu , Xue-Ying Duan , Guang-Jun Wan

We present a practical white-light interferometric method, supported by an open-source Python library \textit{optifik} for automated spectrum-to-thickness deduction, enabling foam film measurements down to a few nanometers. We describe…

In optical metrological protocols to measure physical quantities, it is, in principle, always beneficial to increase photon number to improve measurement precision. However, practical constraints prevent arbitrary increase of n due to the…

Laser interferometric gravitational-wave detectors implement Fabry-Perot cavities to increase their peak sensitivity. However, this is at cost of reducing their detection bandwidth, which origins from the propagation phase delay of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-08-12 Yiqiu Ma , Haixing Miao , Chunnong Zhao , Yanbei Chen

A radio interferometer indirectly measures the intensity distribution of the sky over the celestial sphere. Since measurements are made over an irregularly sampled Fourier plane, synthesising an intensity image from interferometric…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-03-18 Daniel Muscat