Abstract

Compton scattering of electrons from photons destroys neither electrons nor photons, permitting quantum nondemoliton measurements of the photon number. Here we consider a Compton scattering quantum nondemolition measurement of the photon number of an optical pulse traveling in a prepared optical fiber. A beam of electrons is directed through the evanescent field associated with the optical pulse, causing the electrons to scatter through an angle proportional to the pulse’s photon number.

© 1995 Optical Society of America

Quantum-nondemolition measurement of optical solitons

H. A. Haus, K. Watanabe, and Y. Yamamoto
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 6(6) 1138-1148 (1989)

From classical to quantum noise

Hermann A. Haus
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 12(11) 2019-2036 (1995)

Theory of Compton scattering in ignited thermonuclear plasmas

F. V. Hartemann, C. W. Siders, and C. P. J. Barty
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 25(7) B167-B174 (2008)

Time-delay effects in feedback quantum-nondemolition measurements

A. Jann and Y. Ben-Aryeh
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 14(1) 11-16 (1997)

Quantum-nondemolition measurement by a two-photon transition in the presence of the Stark shift

Guojan Yang and Kaige Wang
J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 14(7) 1550-1555 (1997)