General scheme of differential imaging employing weak measurement

Abstract

We propose and experimentally realize a general scheme of differential imaging employing the idea of weak measurement. We show that the weak coupling between the system of interest and a two-level ancilla can introduce a two-beam circuit after an arbitrary pre-selection of the ancilla. By choosing the post-selection orthogonal to the pre-selection measurement, an effective imaging platform based on differential operations is shown achieved. Experimental results on both the Sagnac interferometer and ultra-thin Wollaston prism demonstrate that our imaging scheme successfully yields the boundary information of complex geometric configurations.