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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

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

Michael R. Grace, Christos N. Gagatsos, Quntao Zhuang, Saikat Guha

Published Jan 1, 2020• 2 citations
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Abstract

For fiber-optic gyroscope designs, we analyze the quantum enhancement from quadrature-squeezed and entangled optical probe states for rotation sensing. Under realistic experimental constraints and fiber loss, we analytically show substantial variance suppression over classical sensors.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_si.2020.stu3f.2

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