Optimization of quantum interferometric metrological sensors in the presence of photon loss

Tae-Woo Lee, Sean D. Huver, Hwang Lee, Lev Kaplan, Steven B. McCracken, Changjun Min, Dmitry B. Uskov, Christoph F. Wildfeuer, Georgios Veronis, and Jonathan P. Dowling Center for Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA Hearne Institute for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA Department of Physics, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803, USA Received 5 July 2009; published 2 December 2009