• DocumentCode
    1968456
  • Title

    Effects of photon losses on the phase sensitivity of multi-photon states

  • Author

    Ono, Takafumi ; Hofmann, Holger F.

  • Author_Institution
    Grad. Sch. of Adv. Sci. of Matter, Hiroshima Univ., Higashi Hiroshima, Japan
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    30-3 Aug. 2009
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We derive the phase sensitivity of interference between squeezed vacuum and coherent light in the presence of photon losses. It is shown that losses shift the maximal phase sensitivity towards lower fractions of squeezed light.
  • Keywords
    light coherence; multiphoton processes; coherent light; multi-photon states; phase sensitivity; photon losses; squeezed vacuum; Coherence; Equations; Interference; Interferometers; Metrology; Phase estimation; Phase noise; Photonics; Quantum entanglement; Uncertainty; decoherence effects; multi-photon interference;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009. CLEO/PACIFIC RIM '09. Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Shanghai
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3829-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-3830-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292055
  • Filename
    5292055