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Absolute sensitivity is measured for the phase measurement in an SU(1,1) type interferometer and the results are compared to that of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer operated under the condition of the same intra-interferometer intensity. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-02 Wei Du , Jun Jia , J. F. Chen , Z. Y. Ou , Weiping Zhang

The sensitivity properties of an SU(1,1) interferometer made of two cascaded parametric amplifiers, as well as of an ordinary SU(2) interferometer preceded by a squeezer and followed by an anti-squeezer, are theoretically investigated.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Mathieu Manceau , Farid Khalili , Maria Chekhova

In an unseeded SU(1,1) interferometer composed of two cascaded degenerate parametric amplifiers, with direct detection at the output, we demonstrate a phase sensitivity overcoming the shot noise limit by 2.3 dB. The interferometer is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-12-06 Mathieu Manceau , Gerd Leuchs , Farid Khalili , Maria Chekhova

Compared to passive interferometers, SU(1,1) interferometers exhibit superior phase sensitivity due to the incorporation of nonlinear elements that enhance their ability to detect phase shifts. However, the precision of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 Qingqian Kang , Zekun Zhao , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu

We theoretically study the phase sensitivity of an SU(1,1) interferometer with a thermal state and squeezed vacuum state as inputs and parity detection as measurement. We find that phase sensitivity can beat the shot-noise limit and…

We present in this letter a scheme for optical interferometry. We utilize coherent-beam-stimulated two-mode squeezed light, which interacts with a phase shifter and is then squeezed again before detection. Our theoretical device has the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-16 William N. Plick , Jonathan P. Dowling , G. S. Agarwal

For a squeezing-enhanced SU(2) interferometer, we theoretically investigate the possibility to broaden the phase range of sub-shot-noise sensitivity. We show that this goal can be achieved by implementing detection in both output ports,…

In the field of quantum precision measurement, enhancing phase sensitivity is crucial for various applications, including quantum metrology and quantum sensing technologies. We theoretically investigate the improvement in phase sensitivity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-10-24 Tao Jiang , Zekun Zhao , Qingqian Kang , Teng Zhao , Nanrun Zhou , Cunjin Liu , Liyun Hu

We investigate the phase sensitivity of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer using a special class of generalized coherent states constructed from generalized Heisenberg and deformed $su(1,1)$ algebras. These states, derived from a perturbed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-03 N. E. Abouelkhir , A. Slaoui , R. Ahl Laamara

Multimode quantum light has promising applications in many areas of physics, such as quantum communications and quantum computing. However, its multimode nature also makes it challenging to measure its properties. Recently [Optica Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 D. Scharwald , P. R. Sharapova

We discuss a scheme for generation of single-mode photon states associated with the two-photon realization of the SU(1,1) algebra. This scheme is based on the process of non-degenerate down-conversion with the signal prepared initially in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-30 C. Brif , A. Mann

Although SU(1,1) interferometry achieves Heisenberg-limited sensitivities, it suffers from one major drawback: only those particles outcoupled from the pump mode contribute to the phase measurement. Since the number of particles outcoupled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-13 Stuart S. Szigeti , Robert J. Lewis-Swan , Simon A. Haine

Active interferometers use amplifying elements for beam splitting and recombination. We experimentally implement such a device by using spin exchange in a Bose-Einstein condensate. The two interferometry modes are initially empty spin…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2017-11-15 D. Linnemann , J. Schulz , W. Muessel , P. Kunkel , M. Prüfer , A. Frölian , H. Strobel , M. K. Oberthaler

We theoretically study the effect of quantum statistics of the light field on the quantum enhancement of parameter estimation based on cat state input the SU(1,1) interferometer. The phase sensitivity is dependent on the relative phase…

In non-degenerate SU(1,1) interferometers, beam splitters are replaced by two-mode squeezers, enabling sub-shot-noise sensitivity without input squeezing and robustness to detection losses by quantum entanglement. We propose a hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-29 Chao Meng , Emil Zeuthen , Polina R. Sharapova

A coherent seeded SU(1,1) interferometer provides a prominent technique in the field of precision measurement. We theoretically study the phase sensitivity of SU(1,1) interferometer with Kerr state seeding under single intensity and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-04-04 Priyanka Sharma , Aviral K. Pandey , Gaurav Shukla , Devendra Kumar Mishra

Over the past decade, several schemes for imaging and sensing based on nonlinear interferometers have been proposed and demonstrated experimentally. These interferometers exhibit two main advantages. First, they enable probing a sample at a…

Homodyne detection is often used for interferometers based on nonlinear optical gain media. For the configuration of a seeded, 'truncated SU(1,1)' interferometer Anderson et al. (Phys. Rev. A 95, 063843 (2017)) showed how to optimize the…

We study the feasibility of sub-shot-noise interferometry with imperfect detectors, starting from twin-Fock states and two mode squeezed vacuum states. We derive analytical expressions for the corresponding phase uncertainty. We find that…

In this paper, we revisit the quantum Fisher information (QFI) calculation in SU(1,1) interferometer considering different phase configurations. When one of the input modes is a vacuum state, we show by using phase averaging, different…