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Optomechanical sensors are capable of transducing external perturbations to resolvable optical signals. A particular regime of interest is that of high-bandwidth force detection, where an impulse is delivered to the system over a short…

Squeezed vacuum states are now employed in gravitational-wave interferometric detectors, enhancing their sensitivity and thus enabling richer astrophysical observations. In future observing runs, the detectors will incorporate a filter…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-13 Dhruva Ganapathy , Victoria Xu , Wenxuan Jia , Chris Whittle , Maggie Tse , Lisa Barsotti , Matthew Evans , Lee McCuller

The quantum noise of light fundamentally limits optical phase sensors. A semiclassical picture attributes this noise to the random arrival time of photons from a coherent light source such as a laser. An engineered source of squeezed states…

In a recent table-top experiment we demonstrated the compatibility of three advanced interferometer techniques for gravitational wave detection, namely power-recycling, detuned signal-recycling and squeezed field injection. The…

Cross-correlation heterodyne detectors exhibit the potential for suppression of the detection quantum noise below shot noise without use of optical squeezing for capturing weak optical signals in low frequency bands. To understand the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-09 Sheng Feng , Kaikai Wu

We achieved continuous-wave 8.3-dB squeezed light generation using a terahertz-order-broadband waveguide optical parametric amplifier (OPA) by improving a measurement setup from our previous work [T. Kashiwazaki, et al., Appl. Phys. Lett.…

We present a novel mechanism for generating a wide bandwidth squeezed optical output field in an opto-magnomechanical system. In this system, the magnon (mechanical) mode in the yttrium-iron-garnet crystal is coupled to the microwave field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-08 Ke Di , Shuai Tan , Anyu Cheng , Yinxue Zhao , Yu Liu , Jiajia Du

Quantum vacuum fluctuations fundamentally limit the precision of optical measurements, such as those in gravitational-wave detectors. Injection of conventional squeezed vacuum can be used to reduce quantum noise in the readout quadrature,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-16 Kentaro Komori , Dhruva Ganapathy , Chris Whittle , Lee McCuller , Lisa Barsotti , Nergis Mavalvala , Matthew Evans

The generation and application of squeezed light have long been central goals of quantum optics, enabling sensing below the standard quantum limit, optical quantum computing platforms, and more. Intensity noise squeezing of bright…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-08 Sahil Pontula , Jamison Sloan , Nicholas Rivera , Marin Soljacic

Squeezed vacuum field can be amplified or deamplified when it is injected, as the signal beam, into a phase-sensitive optical parametric amplifier (OPA) inside an optical cavity. The spectral features of the reflected quantized signal field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jing Zhang , Chenguang Ye , Feng Gao , Min Xiao

We consider $N$ two-level atoms in a ring cavity interacting with a broadband squeezed vacuum centered at frequency $\omega_{s}$ and an input monochromatic driving field at frequency $\omega $. We show that, besides the central mode (at…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. P. Maia , G. A. Prataviera , S. S. Mizrahi

We report a large area photo-diode based homodyne detector for free-space quantum coherent communication. The detector's performance is studied in terms of detection bandwidth and electronic noise for shot-noise limited quantum signal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-10 Rupesh Kumar , Igor Konieczniak , Gerald Bonner , Tim Spiller

We utilize a homodyne detection technique to achieve a new sensitivity limit for atom-based, absolute radio-frequency electric field sensing of $\mathrm{5 \mu V cm^{-1} Hz^{-1/2} }$. A Mach-Zehnder interferometer is used for the homodyne…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-01 Santosh Kumar , Haoquan Fan , Harald Kübler , Jiteng Sheng , James P. Shaffer

We demonstrated that by using a pump field with non-zero orbital angular momentum (OAM) in the polarization self-rotation squeezing process it is possible to generate a squeezed vacuum optical field with the matching OAM. We found a similar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 Mi Zhang , Joseph Soultanis , Irina Novikova , Eugeniy E. Mikhailov

A 12.5 GHz-spaced optical frequency comb locked to a Global Positioning disciplined oscillator for near-IR spectrograph calibration is presented. The comb is generated via filtering a 250 MHz-spaced comb. Subsequency nonlinear broadening of…

Optics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Quinlan , G. Ycas , S. Osterman , S. Diddams

A process which strongly amplifies both quadrature amplitudes of an oscillatory signal necessarily adds noise. Alternatively, if the information in one quadrature is lost in phase-sensitive amplification, it is possible to completely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-03-14 C. F. Ockeloen-Korppi , E. Damskägg , J. -M. Pirkkalainen , T. T. Heikkilä , F. Massel , M. A. Sillanpää

Coherently displaced harmonic oscillator number states of a harmonically bound ion can be coupled to two internal states of the ion by a laser-induced motional sideband interaction. The internal states can subsequently be read out in a…

Continuous-wave (cw) squeezed states of light have applications in sensing, metrology and secure communication. In recent decades their efficient generation has been based on parametric down-conversion, which requires pumping by externally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Amrit Pal Singh , Stefan Ast , Moritz Mehmet , Henning Vahlbruch , Roman Schnabel

Advanced digital signal processing techniques in combination with ultra-wideband balanced coherent detection have enabled a new generation of ultra-high speed fiber-optic communication systems, by moving most of the processing…

Impulsive optical excitation can generate both coherent and squeezed phonons. The expectation value of the phonon displacement $<u_q>$ oscillates at the mode frequency for the coherent state but remains zero for a pure squeezed state. In…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-27 T. Henighan , M. Trigo , M. Chollet , J. N. Clark , S. Fahy , J. M. Glownia , M. P. Jiang , M. Kozina , H. Liu , S. Song , D. Zhu , D. A. Reis