Amplifying Single-Photon Nonlinearity Using Weak Measurements

作者:Feizpour Amir*; Xing Xingxing; Steinberg Aephraim M
来源:Physical Review Letters, 2011, 107(13): 133603.
DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.133603

摘要

We show that weak measurement can be used to "amplify'' optical nonlinearities at the single-photon level, such that the effect of one properly postselected photon on a classical beam may be as large as that of many unpostselected photons. We find that "weak-value amplification'' offers a marked improvement in the signal-to-noise ratio in the presence of technical noise with long correlation times. Unlike previous weak-measurement experiments, our proposed scheme has no classical equivalent.

  • 出版日期2011-9-23