Photonic polarization gears for ultra-sensitive angular measurements (Articolo in rivista)

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  • Photonic polarization gears for ultra-sensitive angular measurements (Articolo in rivista) (literal)
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  • 2013-01-01T00:00:00+01:00 (literal)
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  • 10.1038/ncomms3432 (literal)
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  • D'Ambrosio, V.a, Spagnolo, N.a, Del Re, L.a, Slussarenko, S.b, Li, Y.c, Kwek, L.C.cde, Marrucci, L.f, Walborn, S.P.g, Aolita, L.hi, Sciarrino, F.aj (2013)
    Photonic polarization gears for ultra-sensitive angular measurements
    in Nature communications
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  • D'Ambrosio, V.a, Spagnolo, N.a, Del Re, L.a, Slussarenko, S.b, Li, Y.c, Kwek, L.C.cde, Marrucci, L.f, Walborn, S.P.g, Aolita, L.hi, Sciarrino, F.aj (literal)
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  • a Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy b Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Napoli Federico II, Compl. Univ. di Monte S. Angelo, 80126 Napoli, Italy c Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117543, Singapore d Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS), Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 639673, Singapore e National Institute of Education, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 637616, Singapore f CNR-SPIN, Complesso Universitario di Monte S. Angelo, 80126 Napoli, Italy g Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21941-972, Brazil h ICFO-Institut de Ciències Fotòniques, Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia, 08860 Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain i Dahlem Center for Complex Quantum Systems, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany j Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO-CNR), Largo E. Fermi 6, I-50125 Firenze, Italy (literal)
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  • Photonic polarization gears for ultra-sensitive angular measurements (literal)
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  • Quantum metrology bears a great promise in enhancing measurement precision, but is unlikely to become practical in the near future. Its concepts can nevertheless inspire classical or hybrid methods of immediate value. Here we demonstrate NOON-like photonic states of m quanta of angular momentum up to m = 100, in a setup that acts as a 'photonic gear', converting, for each photon, a mechanical rotation of an angle ? into an amplified rotation of the optical polarization by m?, corresponding to a 'super-resolving' Malus' law. We show that this effect leads to single-photon angular measurements with the same precision of polar-ization- only quantum strategies with m photons, but robust to photon losses. Moreover, we combine the gear effect with the quantum enhancement due to entanglement, thus exploiting the advantages of both approaches. The high 'gear ratio' m boosts the current state of the art of optical non-contact angular measurements by almost two orders of magnitude. © 2013 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved. (literal)
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