• DocumentCode
    1691348
  • Title

    Signal-to-noise ratio enhancement in weak measurement, and its application to observing single-photon-level nonlinearities

  • Author

    Feizpour, Amir ; Xing, Xingxing ; Steinberg, Aephraim M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Phys., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We show theoretically that weak-value amplification can enhance the signal-to-noise ratio in the presence of noise with long correlation times, in particular for measurements of single-photon-level nonlinearities.
  • Keywords
    optical Kerr effect; optical noise; quantum optics; correlation times; signal-to-noise ratio; single-photon-level nonlinearities; weak-value amplification; Correlation; Optical noise; Optical variables measurement; Photonics; Probes; Signal to noise ratio;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2012 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4673-1839-6
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6327088