Quantum-Enhanced Optical-Phase Tracking

DOI10.1126/SCIENCE.1225258zbMATH Open1355.81071arXiv1209.4716OpenAlexW2319232757WikidataQ45289976 ScholiaQ45289976MaRDI QIDQ2962053FDOQ2962053

Authors: Hidehiro Yonezawa, Daisuke Nakane, Trevor A. Wheatley, Kohjiro Iwasawa, Shuntaro Takeda, Hajime Arao, Kentaro Ohki, Koji Tsumura, Dominic W. Berry, Timothy C. Ralph, H. M. Wiseman, Elanor H. Huntington, Akira Furusawa 

Publication date: 15 February 2017

Published in: Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: 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 till 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, due to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. By optimizing the squeezing we track the phase with a mean square error 15 pm 4 % below the coherent-state limit.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1209.4716

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Communication theory (94A05) Foundations, quantum information and its processing, quantum axioms, and philosophy (81P99)

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