Sunday, August 12, 2012

1007.4176 (William N. Plick et al.)

Parity Detection in Quantum Optical Metrology Without Number Resolving
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William N. Plick, Petr M. Anisimov, Jonathan P. Dowling, Hwang Lee, Girish S. Agarwal
We present a method of directly obtaining the parity of a Gaussian state of light without recourse to photon-number counting. The scheme uses only a simple balanced homodyne technique, and intensity correlation. Thus interferometric schemes utilizing coherent or squeezed light, and parity detection may be practically implemented for an arbitrary photon flux. Specifically we investigate a two-mode, squeezed-light, Mach-Zehnder interferometer and show how the parity of the output state may be obtained. We also show that the detection may be described independent of the parity operator, and that this "parity-by-proxy" measurement has the same signal as traditional parity.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1007.4176

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