Quantum-Enhanced Optical-Phase Tracking

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Yonezawa, Hidehiro
Nakane, Daisuke
Wheatley, Trevor A
Iwasawa, Kohjiro
Takeda, Shuntaro
Arao, Hajime
Ohki, Kentaro
Tsumura, Koji
Berry, Dominic W
Ralph, Timothy C
Wiseman, Howard M
Huntington, Elanor H
Furusawa, Akira
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2012
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Tracking a randomly varying optical phase is a key task in metrology, with applications in optical communication. The best precision for optical-phase tracking has until now been limited by the quantum vacuum fluctuations of coherent light. Here, we surpass this coherent-state limit by using a continuous-wave beam in a phase-squeezed quantum state. Unlike in previous squeezing-enhanced metrology, restricted to phases with very small variation, the best tracking precision (for a fixed light intensity) is achieved for a finite degree of squeezing because of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. By optimizing the squeezing, we ...
View more >Tracking a randomly varying optical phase is a key task in metrology, with applications in optical communication. The best precision for optical-phase tracking has until now been limited by the quantum vacuum fluctuations of coherent light. Here, we surpass this coherent-state limit by using a continuous-wave beam in a phase-squeezed quantum state. Unlike in previous squeezing-enhanced metrology, restricted to phases with very small variation, the best tracking precision (for a fixed light intensity) is achieved for a finite degree of squeezing because of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. By optimizing the squeezing, we track the phase with a mean square error 15 ᠴ% below the coherent-state limit.
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View more >Tracking a randomly varying optical phase is a key task in metrology, with applications in optical communication. The best precision for optical-phase tracking has until now been limited by the quantum vacuum fluctuations of coherent light. Here, we surpass this coherent-state limit by using a continuous-wave beam in a phase-squeezed quantum state. Unlike in previous squeezing-enhanced metrology, restricted to phases with very small variation, the best tracking precision (for a fixed light intensity) is achieved for a finite degree of squeezing because of Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. By optimizing the squeezing, we track the phase with a mean square error 15 ᠴ% below the coherent-state limit.
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Journal Title
Science
Volume
337
Issue
6101
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© The Author(s) 2012. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of the AAAS for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Science on Vol. 337, 21 September 2012, DOI: dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1225258.
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Quantum optics and quantum optomechanics