Increasing baselines and precision of optical interferometers using two-photon interference

Michael Keach; Steve Bellavia; Zhi Chen; Jesse Crawford; Denis Dolzhenko; Eden Figueroa; Aaron Mueninghoff; Andrei Nomerotski; Jonathan Schiff; Rom Simovitch; Anze Slozar; Paul Stankus; Stephen Vintskevich

doi:10.1117/12.2632122

29 August 2022 Increasing baselines and precision of optical interferometers using two-photon interference

Michael Keach, Steve Bellavia, Zhi Chen, Jesse Crawford, Denis Dolzhenko, Eden Figueroa, Aaron Mueninghoff, Andrei Nomerotski, Jonathan Schiff, Rom Simovitch, Anze Slozar, Paul Stankus, Stephen Vintskevich

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Proceedings Volume 12183, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VIII; 121832F (2022) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2632122
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2022, Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Observations using interferometers provide sensitivity to features of images on angular scales much smaller than any single telescope, on the order of Δθ ∼ λ/b where b is the interferometric baseline. Present-day optical interferometers are essentially classical, interfering single photons with themselves. However, there is a new wave of interest in interferometry using multiple photons, whose mechanisms are inherently quantum mechanical, which offer the prospects of increased baselines and finer resolutions among other advantages. We will discuss recent ideas and results for quantum-assisted interferometry using the resource of entangled pairs, and specifically a two-photon amplitude technique aimed at improved precision in astrometry.

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Michael Keach, Steve Bellavia, Zhi Chen, Jesse Crawford, Denis Dolzhenko, Eden Figueroa, Aaron Mueninghoff, Andrei Nomerotski, Jonathan Schiff, Rom Simovitch, Anze Slozar, Paul Stankus, and Stephen Vintskevich "Increasing baselines and precision of optical interferometers using two-photon interference", Proc. SPIE 12183, Optical and Infrared Interferometry and Imaging VIII, 121832F (29 August 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2632122

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