Optimal quantum metrology for two-photon absorption

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.12555v1
• Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2023 12:07:41 GMT
• Title: Optimal quantum metrology for two-photon absorption
• Authors: Athena Karsa, Ranjith Nair, Andy Chia, Kwang-Geol Lee and Changhyoup Lee
• Abstract summary: Two-photon absorption (TPA) is a nonlinear optical process with wide-ranging applications from spectroscopy to super-resolution imaging. We study the potential of single-mode quantum light to enhance TPA parameter estimation through the quantum Fisher information (QFI) For fixed average energy $barn in 2mathbbN$, the Fock state is shown to be optimal for large TPA parameters, while a superposition of vacuum and a particular Fock state is optimal for small absorption for all $barn$.
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• Abstract: Two-photon absorption (TPA) is a nonlinear optical process with wide-ranging applications from spectroscopy to super-resolution imaging. Despite this, the precise measurement and characterisation of TPA parameters are challenging due to their inherently weak nature. We study the potential of single-mode quantum light to enhance TPA parameter estimation through the quantum Fisher information (QFI). Discrete variable (DV) quantum states (defined to be a finite superposition of Fock states) are optimised to maximise the QFI for given absorption, revealing a quantum advantage compared to both the coherent state (classical) benchmark and the single-mode squeezed vacuum state. For fixed average energy $\bar{n} \in 2\mathbb{N}$, the Fock state is shown to be optimal for large TPA parameters, while a superposition of vacuum and a particular Fock state is optimal for small absorption for all $\bar{n}$. This differs from single-photon absorption where the Fock state is always optimal. Notably, photon counting is demonstrated to offer optimal or nearly optimal performance compared to the QFI bound for all levels of TPA parameters for the optimised quantum probes. Our findings provide insight into known limiting behaviours of Gaussian probes and their different Fisher information (FI) scalings under photon counting ($\propto \bar{n}^2$ for squeezed vacuum states versus $\bar{n}^3$ for coherent states). The squeezed state outperforms coherent states for small TPA parameters but underperforms in the intermediate regime, becoming comparable in the large absorption limit. This can be explained through fundamental differences between behaviours of even and odd number Fock states: the former's QFI diverges in both large and small absorption limits, while the latter diverges only in the small absorption limit, dominating at intermediate scales.

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