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Interferometry with a photon-number resolving detector
Published
Author(s)
Aaron Pearlman, Christoph Wildfeuer, Jun Chen, Jingyun Fan, Alan L. Migdall, Jonathan Dowling
Abstract
With photon-number resolving detectors, we show compression of interference fringes with in- creasing photon numbers for a Fabry-P erot interferometer. This feature provides a higher precision in determining the position of the interference maxima compared to a classical detection strategy. We also theoretically show supersensitivity if N-photon states are sent into the interferometer and a photon-number resolving measurement is performed.
Citation
Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics)
Pearlman, A.
, Wildfeuer, C.
, Chen, J.
, Fan, J.
, Migdall, A.
and Dowling, J.
(2009),
Interferometry with a photon-number resolving detector, Physical Review A (Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics), [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=902582
(Accessed October 10, 2025)