Decoherence of quantum-enhanced timing accuracy
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- Tsang, Mankei
Abstract
Quantum enhancement of optical pulse timing accuracy is investigated in the Heisenberg picture. Effects of optical loss, group-velocity dispersion, and Kerr nonlinearity on the position and momentum of an optical pulse are studied via Heisenberg equations of motion. Using the developed formalism, the impact of decoherence by optical loss on the use of adiabatic soliton control for beating the timing standard quantum limit [M. Tsang, Phys. Rev. Lett. 97, 023902 (2006)] is analyzed theoretically and numerically. The analysis shows that an appreciable enhancement can be achieved using current technology, despite an increase in timing jitter mainly due to the Gordon-Haus effect. The decoherence effect of optical loss on the transmission of quantum-enhanced timing information is also studied, in order to identify situations in which the enhancement is able to survive.
Additional Information
©2007 The American Physical Society (Received 4 April 2007; published 11 June 2007) This work is financially supported by the DARPA Center for Optofluidic Integration and the National Science Foundation through the Center for the Science and Engineering of Materials (Grant No. DMR-0520565).Files
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