Interferometers are highly sensitive measurement devices that map phase changes into intensity changes. Those classical interferometers have a sensitivity limit that cannot be beaten by classical approaches. SU(1,1) interferometers can surpass that shot-noise limit and improve the sensitivity by quantum approach of employing squeezed states of light and destructive interference of the noise. We developed and demonstrated a temporal SU(1,1) interferometer by utilizing two time lenses in a 4f configuration. We achieved three advantageous in addition to the improved sensitivity of SU(1,1) interferometers; The first one is the high temporal resolution we reach by applying time lenses. The second is simultaneously measuring interference in time and frequency domains in single shot measurement. Third, our temporal SU(1,1) interferometer is sensitive to the phase derivative and can detect ultrafast phase changes.
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