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Quantum-Enhanced Fiber-Optic Gyroscopes Using Quadrature Squeezing and Continuous Variable Entanglement

Quantum Physics 2020-09-30 v1 Optics

Abstract

We analyze a fiber-optic gyroscope design enhanced by the injection of quantum-optical squeezed vacuum into a fiber-based Sagnac interferometer. In the presence of fiber loss, we compute the maximum attainable enhancement over a classical, laser-driven fiber-optic gyroscope in terms of the angular velocity estimate variance from a homodyne measurement. We find a constant enhancement factor that depends on the degree of squeezing introduced into the system but has diminishing returns beyond 1010--1515 dB of squeezing. Under a realistic constraint of fixed total fiber length, we show that segmenting the available fiber into multiple Sagnac interferometers fed with a multi-mode-entangled squeezed vacuum, thereby establishing quantum entanglement across the individual interferometers, improves the rotation estimation variance by a factor of e2.718e\approx2.718.

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@article{arxiv.2003.12545,
  title  = {Quantum-Enhanced Fiber-Optic Gyroscopes Using Quadrature Squeezing and Continuous Variable Entanglement},
  author = {Michael R Grace and Christos N. Gagatsos and Quntao Zhuang and Saikat Guha},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.12545},
  year   = {2020}
}

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12 pages, 8 figures

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