Enhanced-sensitivity interferometry with phase-sensitive unbiased multiports

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00098v1
• Date: Wed, 31 May 2023 18:18:02 GMT
• Title: Enhanced-sensitivity interferometry with phase-sensitive unbiased multiports
• Authors: Christopher R. Schwarze, David S. Simon, Alexander V. Sergienko
• Abstract summary: We introduce interferometric devices by combining optical feedback with unbiased multiports. Unlike traditional beam dividers, unbiased multiports allow light to reflect back out of the port from which it originated.
• Score: 68.8204255655161
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Here we introduce interferometric devices by combining optical feedback (cavities) with unbiased multiports, which unlike traditional beam dividers, allow light to reflect back out of the port from which it originated. By replacing the traditional, directionally-biased beam-splitter in a Michelson interferometer with an unbiased multiport, the functional dependence of the scattering amplitudes changes. As a result, the derivative of transmittance with respect to an external phase perturbation can be made substantially large. This significantly enhances the resolution of phase measurement, and allows the phase response curves to be altered in real time by tuning an externally-controllable phase shift.

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