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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Improving noiseless linear amplification for long baseline optical interferometers with squeezing operator

Song Yang, Ningjuan Ruan, Yun Su, Xuling Lin, Zhiqiang Wu

Published Oct 8, 2015• 1 citation
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Abstract

There has been much recent interest in quantum technology for applications to high resolution imaging and interference measurement. Due to noise and photon loss in the transmission between the telescopes, the current optical interferometers have quite limited baselines to a few hundred meters at most, which limit the resolutions. Here we propose to use noiseless linear amplifier (NLA) to reduce optical loss in the transmission. We also show that NLA can be further improved with local squeezing operator. We envisage that our analysis on this squeezing operator assisted NLA method could help to develop higher resolution interferometers, which would have many applications in stellar observation.

DOI
10.1117/12.2197683

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