Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Quantum Interferometer

Jonathan Dowling from Louisiana State University gave a presentation about the use of entangled photons for high precision interferometry [1] showing that they can lead to much better measurements than it is possible with classical light. These entangled photon states are of the form

Some problems remain such as the difficulty to produce NOON states with high power, but they are very promising anyway.

So far they devised how to make ingenious conditional measurements in order to generate NOON states.

Another important topic was the emulation of non-linear effects by conditional measurements within linear optics [2].

Refererences

  1. J Dowling arXiv:0904.0163
  2. G. G. Lapaire1, et al, Conditional linear-optical measurement schemes generate effective photon nonlinearities DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.68.042314
  3. Jonathan Dowling ppt presentation

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