Precision Enhancement in Spatial Measurement by Introducing Squeezed Light into Weak Value Amplification
Abstract
The precision enhancement is demonstrated in an optical spatial measurement based on weak value amplification (WVA) system and split-like detection, by injecting a TEM10 squeezed vacuum beam. It is the first time to experimentally realize high-precision optical spatial measurement beyond the shot noise limit by using squeezing-assisted WVA. Based on the WVA technique, which can amplify the signal by increasing the number of photons that injected into the interferometer, squeezed beam injection can reduce the noise level and can further improve the signal-to-noise ratio(SNR). As a result, a SNR improvement of 2dB, i.e., 1.3 time precision enhancement, can be achieved, by using a 2dB squeezed beam injection and 2.6\% postselection probability in WVA process. Our work provides an effective method to accomplish higher precision in quantum spatial measurement, which has potential applications in gravitational wave interferometer calibration, super-resolution quantum imaging, etc.
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