A Quantum Ring Laser Gyroscope Based on Coherence de Broglie Waves

Abstract

In sensors, the highest precision in measurements is given by vacuum fluctuations of quantum mechanics, resulting in a shot noise limit. In a Mach-Zenhder interferometer (MZI), the intensity measurement is correlated with the phase, and thus, the precision measurement (Delta n) is coupled with the phase resolution (Delta phi) by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Quantum metrology offers a different solution to this precision measurement using nonclassical light such as squeezed light or higher-order entangled-photon pairs, resulting in a smaller Delta phi and sub-shot noise limit. Here, we propose another method for the high precision measurement overcoming the diffraction limit in classical physics, where the smaller Delta phi is achieved by phase quantization in a coupled interferometric system of coherence de Broglie waves. For a potential application of the proposed method, a quantum ring laser gyroscope is presented as a quantum version of the conventional ring laser gyroscope used for inertial navigation and geodesy.