Abstract

Here, we are investigating the enhancement in resolution and phase sensitivity of a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) based quantum LiDAR. We are using a multi-photonic state (MPS), superposition of four coherent states [Int. J. Quantum Inf. 19, 2150013 (2021) [CrossRef]  ], as the input state and binary outcome parity photon counting measurement and binary outcome zero non-zero photon counting measurement as the measurement schemes. We have thoroughly investigated the results in lossless as well as lossy cases. We found enhancement in resolution and phase sensitivity in comparison to the coherent state and even coherent superposition state (ECSS) based quantum LiDAR. Our analysis shows that MPS may be an alternative nonclassical resource in the field of quantum imaging and quantum sensing technologies, like in quantum LiDAR.

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