[HTML][HTML] Detection-dependent six-photon Holland-Burnett state interference

RB Jin, M Fujiwara, R Shimizu, RJ Collins, GS Buller… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Scientific reports, 2016nature.com
The NOON state, and its experimental approximation the Holland-Burnett state, have
important applications in phase sensing measurement with enhanced sensitivity. However,
most of the previous Holland-Burnett state interference (HBSI) experiments only investigated
the area of the interference pattern in the region immediately around zero optical path length
difference, while the full HBSI pattern over a wide range of optical path length differences
has not yet been well explored. In this work, we experimentally and theoretically …
Abstract
The NOON state, and its experimental approximation the Holland-Burnett state, have important applications in phase sensing measurement with enhanced sensitivity. However, most of the previous Holland-Burnett state interference (HBSI) experiments only investigated the area of the interference pattern in the region immediately around zero optical path length difference, while the full HBSI pattern over a wide range of optical path length differences has not yet been well explored. In this work, we experimentally and theoretically demonstrate up to six-photon HBSI and study the properties of the interference patterns over a wide range of optical path length differences. It was found that the shape, the coherence time and the visibility of the interference patterns were strongly dependent on the detection schemes. This work paves the way for applications which are based on the envelope of the HBSI pattern, such as quantum spectroscopy and quantum metrology.
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