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We propose granularity noise thermometry (GNT), a fluctuation-based optical thermometry scheme that exploits the intrinsic fluctuations of susceptibility arising from atomic discreteness. The power spectral density of transmitted light…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2026-05-19 Chen-Rong Liu , Yixuan Wang , Xiaowei Wang , Chuang Li , Mingti Zhou , Runxia Tao , Hongwei Chen , Ying Dong

The intensity fluctuations of laser light are derived from photon number rate equations. In the limit of short times, the photon statistics for small laser devices such as typical semiconductor laser diodes show thermal characteristics even…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-06 Holger F. Hofmann , Ortwin Hess

Optomechanical interactions between mechanical oscillators and an electromagnetic field induce controllable modifications in mechanical fluctuation. When multiple mechanical oscillators are coupled to a single electromagnetic mode, these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-17 Mungyeong Jeong , Hyojun Seok , Young-Sik Ra , Junho Suh

We present the observation of optical fields carrying squeezed vacuum states at sideband frequencies from 10Hz to above 35MHz. The field was generated with type-I optical parametric oscillation below threshold at 1064nm. A coherent,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Simon Chelkowski , Henning Vahlbruch , Karsten Danzmann , Roman Schnabel

We establish a connection between quantum inequalities (known from quantum field theory on curved spacetimes) and the degree of squeezing in quantum-optical experiments. We prove an inequality which binds the reduction of the electric-field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Marecki

Squeezed light is usually generated using passive nonlinear materials. Semiconductor lasers and optical amplifiers (SOAs) also offer nonlinearities but they differ in that they add amplified spontaneous emission (ASE). Squeezing to below…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Ori Gabai , Amnon Willinger , Igor Khanonkin , Vitalii Sichkovskyi , Johann Peter Reithmaier , Gadi Eisenstein

In the usual optomechanical cooling, even if the system has no thermal component, it still has a quantum limit-known as the quantum backaction limit (QBL)-on the minimum phonon number related to shot noise. By studying the side-band cooling…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-21 Dong-Yang Wang , Cheng-Hua Bai , Shutian Liu , Shou Zhang , Hong-Fu Wang

We propose a novel and experimentally feasible approach to achieve high-efficiency ground-state cooling of a mechanical oscillator in an optomechanical system under the deeply unresolved sideband condition with the assistance of both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-03 S. S. Zheng , F. X. Sun , M. Asjad , G. W. Zhang , J. Huo , J. Li , J. Zhou , Z. Ma , Q. Y. He

Optomechanics and electromechanics have made it possible to prepare macroscopic mechanical oscillators in their quantum ground states, in quadrature squeezed states, and in entangled states of motion. In addition to coaxing ever larger and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-31 Xizheng Ma , Jeremie J. Viennot , Shlomi Kotler , John D. Teufel , Konrad W. Lehnert

We investigate the nonlinear interaction between a squeezed cavity mode and a mechanical mode in an optomechanical system (OMS) that allows us to selectively obtain either a radiation-pressure coupling or a parametric-amplification process.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Xin-You Lü , Ying Wu , J. R. Johansson , Hui Jing , Jing Zhang , Franco Nori

We theoretically investigate the mechanism of two-mode quadrature squeezing in regime of four-wave mixing in a \Lambda-scheme of three-level atoms embedded in a thermal reservoir. We demonstrate that the process of nonlinear transfer of…

Optics · Physics 2017-01-11 Maria Erukhimova , Mikhail Tokman

Squeezed spin states and squeezed light are both key resources for quantum metrology and quantum information science, but have been separately investigated in experiments so far. Simultaneous generation of these two types of quantum states…

Enhanced nonlinear optical response of a coherent atomic medium is the basis for many atomic sensors, and their performance is ultimately limited by the quantum fluctuations of the optical read-out. Here we demonstrate that off-resonant…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Irina Novikova , Eugeniy E. Mikhailov , Yanhong Xiao

Intracavity squeezing is a promising technique that may improve the sensitivity of gravitational wave detectors and cool optomechanical oscillators to the ground state. However, the photothermal effect may modify the occurrence of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-07 Sotatsu Otabe , Kentaro Komori , Ken-ichi Harada , Kaido Suzuki , Yuta Michimura , Kentaro Somiya

Under a strong quantum measurement, the motion of an oscillator is disturbed by the measurement back-action, as required by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. When a mechanical oscillator is continuously monitored via an electromagnetic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-19 C. F. Ockeloen-Korppi , E. Damskägg , G. S. Paraoanu , F. Massel , M. A. Sillanpää

In ref [Phys. Rev. A 106, 013720], the scheme of quantum non-demolition measurement of optical quanta that uses a resonantly enhanced Kerr nonlinearity in optical microresonators was analyzed theoretically. It was shown that using the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-15 Stepan Balybin , Dariya Salykina , Farid Ya. Khalili

Using a nondegenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) process based on a double-{\Lambda} scheme in hot cesium vapor, we demonstrate a compact diode-laser-pumped quantum light source for the generation of quantum correlated twin beams with a maximum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-09 Rong Ma , Wei Liu , Zhongzhong Qin , Xiaolong Su , Xiaojun Jia , Junxiang Zhang , Jiangrui Gao

We study quantum enhancement of sensitivity using squeezed light in a multi-parameter quantum sensor, the hybrid dc-rf optically pumped magnetometer (hOPM) [Phys. Rev. Applied 21, 034054, (2024)]. Using a single spin ensemble, the hOPM…

Cavity-enhanced radiation pressure coupling between optical and mechanical degrees of freedom allows quantum-limited position measurements and gives rise to dynamical backaction enabling amplification and cooling of mechanical motion. Here…

We present a technique for squeezed light detection based on direct imaging of the displaced-squeezed-vacuum state using a CCD camera. We show that the squeezing parameter can be accurately estimated using only the first two moments of the…