Interferometry as a binary decision problem

Abstract

Binary decision theory has been applied to the general interferometric problem. Optimal detection scheme-according to the Neyman-Pearson criterion-has been considered for different phase-enhanced states of radiation field, and the corresponding bounds on minimum detectable phase shift has been evaluated. A general bound on interferometric precision has been also obtained in terms of photon number fluctuations of the signal mode carrying the phase information.

9 pages. One picture in LaTeX. Epic and Eepic extension needed

References in corpus (1)

• Squeezed Vacuum Interferometry

Cited by in corpus (16)

• Ziv-Zakai Error Bounds for Quantum Parameter Estimation
• Quantum metrology with open dynamical systems
• Quantum transition-edge detectors
• Fundamental quantum limits to waveform detection
• Robust strategies for lossy quantum interferometry
• Quantum Filtering of Optical Coherent States
• Improving quantum interferometry by using entanglement (to take a decision you'd better use entanglement)
• Designing the unambiguous discriminator from the one -photon interferometer
• Generalized quantum process discrimination problems
• Unambiguous quantum state filtering
• Nearly ideal binary communication in squeezed channels
• Finding optimal solutions for generalized quantum state discrimination problems
• Process estimation in qubit systems: a quantum decision theory approach
• Practical scheme for the optimal measuremnet in quantum interferometric devices
• About the use of entanglement in the optical implementation of quantum information processing
• The Lindley paradox in optical interferometry