TY - JOUR N2 - Weak value amplification is a measurement technique where small quantum mechanical interactions are amplified and manifested macroscopically in the output of a measurement apparatus. It is shown here that the linear nature of weak value amplification provides a straightforward comparative methodology for using the value of a known small interaction to estimate the value of an unknown small interaction. The methodology is illustrated by applying it to quantify the unknown size of an optical Goos-Hänchen shift of a laser beam induced at a glass/gold interface using the known size of the shift at a glass/air interface. L1 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/106336/PDF/10.15.15mms-2016-0035%20paper%2007.pdf L2 - http://www.journals.pan.pl/Content/106336 PY - 2016 IS - No 3 EP - 401 DO - 10.1515/mms-2016-0035 KW - weak values KW - weak measurement KW - Goos-Hänchen shift KW - interaction strength KW - Regression A1 - Parks, Allen D. A1 - Spence, Scott E. PB - Polish Academy of Sciences Committee on Metrology and Scientific Instrumentation VL - vol. 23 DA - 2016.09.30 T1 - Comparative Weak Value Amplification as an Approach to Estimating the Value of Small Quantum Mechanical Interactions SP - 393 UR - http://www.journals.pan.pl/dlibra/publication/edition/106336 T2 - Metrology and Measurement Systems ER -