Quantum imaging and metrology with undetected photons: a tutorial
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.09898v1
- Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 19:58:19 GMT
- Title: Quantum imaging and metrology with undetected photons: a tutorial
- Authors: Gabriela Barreto Lemos and Mayukh Lahiri and Sven Ramelow and Radek
Lapkiewicz and William Plick
- Abstract summary: We present a tutorial on the phenomenon of induced coherence without induced emission.
It is based on a striking effect where two nonlinear crystals, by sharing a coherent pump and one of two output beams each, can induce correlations between the other two individual, non-interacting beams.
This can be thought of as a type of quantum-erasure effect, where the welcher-weg'' (which-way) or in this case which-source'' information is erased when the shared beams are aligned.
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- Abstract: We present a tutorial on the phenomenon of induced coherence without induced
emission, and specifically its application to imaging and metrology. It is
based on a striking effect where two nonlinear crystals, by sharing a coherent
pump and one of two output beams each, can induce correlations between the
other two individual, non-interacting beams. This can be thought of as a type
of quantum-erasure effect, where the ``welcher-weg'' (which-way), or in this
case ``which-source'' information is erased when the shared beams are aligned.
With the correct geometry this effect can allow an object to be imaged using
only photons which have never interacted with the object -- in other words the
image is formed using undetected photons. Interest in this and related setups
has been accelerating in recent years due to a number of desirable properties,
mostly centered around the fact that the fields for detection and imaging
(since separate) may have different optical properties, entailing significant
advantages to various applications. The purpose of this tutorial is to
introduce researchers to this area of research, to provide practical tools for
setting up experiments as well as understanding the underlying theory, and to
also provide a comprehensive overview of the sub-field as a whole.
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