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Quantum Information and Measurement (QIM)

Using Coherent Multimode Photon Addition for Sensing a Remote Phase

Nicola Biagi, Saverio Francesconi, Manuel Gessner, Alessandro Zavatta, Marco Bellini

Published Jan 1, 2021• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate a remote phase estimation technique based on delocalized single-photon addition onto distinct field modes and characterized by a sensitivity scaling with the intensity of light that never interacted with a distant sample.
DOI
10.1364/qim.2021.tu3a.6

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