Optimizing the signal-to-noise ratio of a beam-deflection measurement with interferometric weak values

Physical Review A - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics

Volumn 80, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Starling, David J ^a   Dixon, P Ben ^a   Jordan, Andrew N ^a   Howell, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAM RADIUS; BEAM SIZE; COHERENT BEAMS; DEFLECTION MEASUREMENT; INPUT POWER; OPTICAL BEAM DEFLECTION; OPTIMUM SIGNALS; SATURATION INTENSITY; TECHNICAL NOISE; WEAK VALUES;

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; AMPLIFICATION; DEFLECTION (STRUCTURES); INTERFEROMETRY;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 70349865047     PISSN: 10502947     EISSN: 10941622     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.80.041803     Document Type: Article

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