Lecturer:Prof. John C. Howell
Affiliation: Department of Physics & Astronomy,
University of Rochester
Abstract:
Weak values amplification techniques
have proven to be a valuable resource
for precision measurements. Weak
values amplification allows an increase
in the shift of a parameter, but at the
cost of a reduction in the number of
possible measurements. I will discuss
these tradeoffs and the value of using
weak value amplification in overcoming
technical noise. I will show that several
types of technical noise can be
suppressed, such as laser beam jitter
and detector jitter. I will also discuss
some of our recent efforts which have
allowed us to measure sub-picoRadian
laser beam deflections and sub microHz
Doppler shifts.