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
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;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292055
