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An experimental scheme is introduced to measure multiple parameters that are encoded in the phase quadrature of a light beam. Using a modal description and a spectrally-resolved homodyne detection, it is shown that all of the information is…

Optics · Physics 2017-03-29 Valérian Thiel , Jonathan Roslund , Pu Jian , Claude Fabre , Nicolas Treps

The fields of precision timekeeping and spectroscopy increasingly rely on optical frequency comb interferometry. However, comb-based measurements are not described by existing quantum theory because they exhibit both large mode mismatch and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-02 Noah Lordi , Eugene J. Tsao , Alexander J. Lind , Scott A. Diddams , Joshua Combes

We suggest to use the photon homodyne detection experimental data for checking the Heisenberg and Schr\"{o}dinger-Robertson uncertainty relations, by means of measuring optical tomograms of the photon quantum states.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. I. Man'ko , G. Marmo , A. Simoni , F. Ventriglia

Homodyne measurement is a crucial tool widely used to address continuous variables for bosonic quantum systems. While an ideal homodyne detection provides a powerful analysis, e.g. to effectively measure quadrature amplitudes of light in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-03 Jaehak Lee , Jiyong Park , Jaewan Kim , M. S. Kim , Hyunchul Nha

We present a homodyne detection scheme to verify Bell's inequality on correlated optical beams at the output of a nondegenerate parametric amplifier. Our approach is based on tomographic measurement of the joint detection probabilities,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-03-28 G. M. D'Ariano , L. Maccone , M. F. Sacchi , A. Garuccio

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

We propose an innovative strategy to discriminate between two coherent states affected by either uniform or gaussian phase noise. The strategy is based on a homodyne-like detection scheme with photon-number-resolving detectors in the regime…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-01 Matteo Bina , Alessia Allevi , Maria Bondani , Stefano Olivares

Using coherent phase states, parameterized phase state distributions for a single-mode radiation field are introduced and their integral relation to the phase-parameterized field-strength distributions is studied. The integral kernel is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-02-03 M. Dakna , L. Knoll , D. -G. Welsch

A review is given on phase-sensitive measurements, such as homodyne detection, for radiation fields and material systems. Methods of quantum-state reconstruction are considered for radiation fields, including multimode and pulsed radiation.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-07-10 Dirk-Gunnar Welsch , Werner Vogel , Tomas Opatrny

A scheme is proposed, that allows one for performing homodyne detection of the matter-wave field of ultracold bosonic atoms. It is based on a pump-probe lasers setup, that both illuminates a Bose-Einstein condensate, acting as reference…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-29 Stefan Rist , Giovanna Morigi

We describe a simple and efficient setup to generate and characterize femtosecond quadrature-entangled pulses. Quantum correlations equivalent to about 2.5 dB squeezing are efficiently and easily reached using the non-degenerate parametric…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jerome Wenger , Alexei Ourjoumtsev , Rosa Tualle-Brouri , Philippe Grangier

Homodyne measurement is a corner-stone of quantum optics. It measures the fundamental variables of quantum electrodynamics - the quadratures of light, which represent the cosine-wave and sine-wave components of an optical field and…

A self-homodyne detection scheme is proposed to perform two-mode tomography on a twin-beam state at the output of a nondegenerate optical parametric amplifier. This scheme has been devised to improve the matching between the local…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Giacomo M. D'Ariano , Michael Vasilyev , Prem Kumar

As part of the effort to make use of squeezed states of light for detection of sub-shot-noise optical signals, we study the balanced heterodyne scheme, for which the corresponding spectral density of the photocurrent fluctuations produced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-28 Sheng Feng , Zehuan Lu , Jie Zhang , Chenggang Shao

Historically, the completeness of quantum theory has been questioned using the concept of bipartite continuous variable entanglement. The non-classical correlations (entanglement) between the two subsystems imply that the observables of one…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2011-12-21 C. Gross , H. Strobel , E. Nicklas , T. Zibold , N. Bar-Gill , G. Kurizki , M. K. Oberthaler

The advent of stable, highly squeezed states of light has generated great interest in the gravitational wave community as a means for improving the quantumnoise- limited performance of advanced interferometric detectors. To confidently…

It is shown that fundamental uncertainty relations between photon number and canonical phase of a single-mode optical field can be verified by means of balanced homodyne measurement. All the relevant quantities can be sampled directly from…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 T. Opatrny , M. Dakna , D. -G. Welsch

Homo- and heterodyne detection are fundamental techniques for measuring propagating electromagnetic fields. However, applying these techniques to stationary fields confined in cavities poses a challenge. As a way to overcome this challenge,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Ingrid Strandberg , Axel Eriksson , Baptiste Royer , Mikael Kervinen , Simone Gasparinetti

We present an experimental demonstration of the power of real-time feedback in quantum metrology, confirming a theoretical prediction by Wiseman regarding the superior performance of an adaptive homodyne technique for single-shot…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael A. Armen , John K. Au , John K. Stockton , Andrew C. Doherty , Hideo Mabuchi

Homodyne detection is considered as a way to improve the efficiency of communication near the single-photon level. The current lack of commercially available {\it infrared} photon-number detectors significantly reduces the mutual…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 K. Nemoto , S. L. Braunstein