Mode invisibility as a quantum nondemolition measurement of coherent light
Abstract
We exploit geometric properties of quantum states of light in optical cavities to carry out quantum nondemolition measurements. We generalize the "mode-invisibility" method to obtain information about the Wigner function of a squeezed coherent state in a nondestructive way. We also simplify the application of this nondemolition technique to measure single-photon and few-photon states.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- September 2014
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.90.033847
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1404.0726
- Bibcode:
- 2014PhRvA..90c3847O
- Keywords:
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- 42.50.Gy;
- Effects of atomic coherence on propagation absorption and amplification of light;
- electromagnetically induced transparency and absorption;
- Quantum Physics
- E-Print:
- 14 pages, 10 figures. Revtex 4.1, V2: Updated to published version