Improving Kerr QND measurement sensitivity via squeezed light

TL;DR

This paper proposes an enhanced Kerr quantum non-demolition measurement scheme using squeezed light and anti-squeezing techniques, significantly improving sensitivity and enabling the generation of complex quantum states for quantum information processing.

Contribution

It introduces a novel scheme combining squeezed probe states and anti-squeezing to boost measurement sensitivity beyond previous limits.

Findings

Measurement imprecision reduced by about an order of magnitude.

Enhanced sensitivity enables verification of multi-photon non-Gaussian states.

Scheme surpasses standard quantum limit with high-Q microresonators.

Abstract

In ref [Phys. Rev. A 106, 013720], the scheme of quantum non-demolition measurement of optical quanta that uses a resonantly enhanced Kerr nonlinearity in optical microresonators was analyzed theoretically. It was shown that using the modern high-Q microresonators, it is possible to achieve the sensitivity several times better than the standard quantum limit. Here we propose and analyze in detail a significantly improved version of that scheme. We show, that by using a squeezed quantum state of the probe beam and the anti-squeezing (parametric amplification) of this beam at the output of the microresonator, it is possible to reduce the measurement imprecision by about one order of magnitude. The resulting sensitivity allows to generate and verify multi-photon non-Gaussian quantum states of light, making the scheme considered here interesting for the quantum information processing tasks.