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View SchemaNonclassical interferometry with intelligent light
| Authors | C. Brif, A. Mann |
|---|---|
| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/9608021 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/9608021 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.54.4505 |
| Journal | Phys.Rev. A54 (1996) 4505 |
Abstract
We study the phase sensitivity of SU(2) and SU(1,1) interferometers fed by two-mode field states which are intelligent states for Hermitian generators of the SU(2) and SU(1,1) groups, respectively. Intelligent states minimize uncertainty relations and this makes possible an essential reduction of the quantum noise in interferometers. Exact closed expressions for the minimum detectable phase shift are obtained in terms of the Jacobi polynomials. These expressions are compared with results for some conventional input states, and some known results for the squeezed input states are reviewed. It is shown that the phase sensitivity for an interferometer that employs squeezing-producing active devices (such as four-wave mixers) should be analyzed in two regimes: (i) fixed input state and variable interferometer, and (ii) fixed interferometer and variable input state. The behavior of the phase sensitivity is essentially different in these two regimes. The use of the SU(2) intelligent states allows us to achieve a phase sensitivity of order $1/\bar{N}$ (where $\bar{N}$ is the total number of photons passing through the phase shifters of the interferometer) without adding four-wave mixers. This avoids the duality in the behavior of the phase sensitivity that occurs for the squeezed input. On the other hand, the SU(1,1) intelligent states have the property of achieving the phase sensitivity of order $1/\bar{N}$ in both regimes.
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