Using Recycling to Increase the Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Weak Measurements

Courtney Byard,Trent Graham,Andrew N. Jordan,Paul G. Kwiat

Using Recycling to Increase the Signal-to-Noise Ratio in Weak Measurements

2014

Courtney Byard
Trent Graham
Andrew N. Jordan
Paul G. Kwiat

Recycling unmeasured photons in a system utilizing weak measurements can substantially improve the signal-to-noise ratio. We achieve an improvement by a factor of 1.36 over a system with no recycling.

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Photon counting
Fast Fourier transform
Spatial filter
Weak measurement
Phase (waves)
Signal-to-noise ratio
Electronic engineering
Photon
Materials science
Optics
laser beams

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