Arbitrarily high super-resolving phase measurements at telecommunication wavelengths

作者:Kothe Christian*; Bjork Gunnar; Bourennane Mohamed
来源:Physical Review A, 2010, 81(6): 063836.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.81.063836

摘要

We present two experiments that achieve phase super-resolution at telecommunication wavelengths. One of the experiments is realized in the space domain and the other is realized in the time domain. Both experiments show high visibility and are performed with standard lasers and single-photon detectors. The first experiment uses six-photon coincidences, whereas the latter experiment needs no coincidence measurements, is easy to perform, and achieves, in principle, arbitrarily high phase super-resolution. Here, we demonstrate a 30-fold increase of the resolution. We stress that neither entanglement nor joint detection is needed in these experiments, which demonstrates that neither is necessary to achieve phase super-resolution.

  • 出版日期2010-6-30