NOON states from cavity-enhanced down-conversion: high quality and super-resolution
Florian Wolfgramm, Alessandro Cerè, Morgan W. Mitchell
2010
Journal of the Optical Society of America. B, Optical physics
Indistinguishable photons play a key role in quantum optical information technologies. We characterize the output of an ultra-bright photon-pair source using multi-particle tomography [R. B. A. Adamson et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 98, 043601 (2007)] and separately identify coherent errors, decoherence, and distinguishability. We demonstrate generation of high-quality indistinguishable pairs and polarization NOON states with 99% fidelity to an ideal NOON state. Using a NOON state we perform a super-resolving angular measurement with 90% visibility.
doi:10.1364/josab.27.000a25
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