Review Article

Interference of Light in a Michelson-Morley Interferometer: A Quantum Optical Approach

Figure 1

Schematic drawing of the MMI setup considered in this paper. The thick and diagonal line is representing a beam splitter with a transmission coefficient 𝑇 . The movable mirrors 1 and 2 are identical. The numbers in the parenthesis are referring to the indices used to label the mode operators of the various light beams as discussed in the main text. The signal port ( 1 ) and the local oscillator port LO ( 0 ) are prepared with various quantum states, like Fock states, coherent states, or states with random phases like thermal states. The output mode ( 4 ) will not be considered in the present paper.
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