Tried-and-true binary strategy for angular displacement estimation based upon fidelity appraisal.

We demonstrate a tried-and-true binary strategy for angular displacement estimation, of which the measuring system is a modified Mach-Zehnder interferometer fed by a coherent state carrying orbital angular momentum, and two Dove prisms are embedded in two arms. Unlike previous protocols, in this paper, we use fidelity instead of standard deviation to evaluate the detection strategies. Two binary strategy candidates, parity detection and Z detection, are considered and compared. In addition, we study the effects of several realistic scenarios on the estimation protocol, including transmission loss, detection efficiency, dark counts, and those which are a combination thereof. Finally, we exhibit a proof-of-principle experiment, the results suggest a resolution enhancement effect with a factor of 3.72.

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