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Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Photon-subtracted two-mode squeezed vacuum states and applications to quantum optical interferometry

Raul Carranza, Christopher C. Gerry

Published Aug 30, 2012• 108 citations
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Abstract

We study the application of photon-subtracted two-mode squeezed vacuum states (TMSVS), where identical photon numbers are subtracted from each beam, to the problem of quantum optical interferometry with the photon-number parity measurements scheme. Previously, Anisimov et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett.104, 103602 (2010)] have studied the prospect of using the TMSVS for parity measurements based interferometry. However, the joint photon number distribution of this state before beam splitting is thermal-like in each mode, meaning that its statistics are super-Poissonian and that the most probable state of the field is the double vacuum and that the average photon number is low. Furthermore, with these states the sensitivity of the phase-shift measurement is extremely sensitive to the size of the phase shift to be measured for large average photon numbers. The simultaneous subtraction of 1, 2, or 3 photons from each mode has the effects of increasing the average photon numbers of each mode and rendering the statistics nearly Poissonian and in some cases sub-Poissonian. We show that phase uncertainties for such states are less sensitive to the phase shift itself at large average photon numbers. We also show that the photon-subtracted TMSVS also lead to increased resolution.

DOI
10.1364/josab.29.002581

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Parity measurement-based quantum optical interferometry and metrology is known to be sensitive to the joint photon number distribution, , of the two-mode quantum states inside the interferometer. In cases where the statistics display a clustering of the populations around the borders (i.e. along the axes ) with a plateau over most of the interior, Heisenberg-limited (or super-sensitive) measurements of phase shifts are enabled. This follows from the heuristic number-phase uncertainty relation because of the uncertainty in the location of the photons being ΔN ∼ . As an example of the connection between the photon statistics and Heisenberg-limited phase uncertainty, we study parity measurement-based interferometry of the two-mode Barut–Girardello coherent states for SU(1,1)SU(1,1) obtained from the coupling together of two representations of SU(1,1) each associated with single-mode boson realizations with Bargmann indices as discussed by Gerry and Benmoussa [Phys. Rev. A 2000, 62, 033812]. These states generally have distributions with clustered populations along the borders. We demonstrate that these states do, indeed, lead to super-sensitive measurements and also lead to super-resolved interference fringes.
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