Adaptive Quantum Measurements of a Continuously Varying Phase
arXiv:quant-ph/0111013 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevA.65.043803
Abstract
We analyze the problem of quantum-limited estimation of a stochastically varying phase of a continuous beam (rather than a pulse) of the electromagnetic field. We consider both non-adaptive and adaptive measurements, and both dyne detection (using a local oscillator) and interferometric detection. We take the phase variation to be \dotϕ= \sqrtκξ(t), where ξ(t) is δ-correlated Gaussian noise. For a beam of power P, the important dimensionless parameter is N=P/\hbarωκ, the number of photons per coherence time. For the case of dyne detection, both continuous-wave (cw) coherent beams and cw (broadband) squeezed beams are considered. For a coherent beam a simple feedback scheme gives good results, with a phase variance \simeq N^{-1/2}/2. This is \sqrt{2} times smaller than that achievable by nonadaptive (heterodyne) detection. For a squeezed beam a more accurate feedback scheme gives a variance scaling as N^{-2/3}, compared to N^{-1/2} for heterodyne detection. For the case of interferometry only a coherent input into one port is considered. The locally optimal feedback scheme is identified, and it is shown to give a variance scaling as N^{-1/2}. It offers a significant improvement over nonadaptive interferometry only for N of order unity.
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