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We report the first coexistence experiment of 1550 nm single-mode squeezed states of light with a 1310 nm classical telecom channel over a 10 km fiber channel while measuring squeezing using a locally generated local oscillator. This is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-05 Adnan A. E. Hajomer , Huy Q. Nguyen , Melis Pahalı , Ulrik L. Andersen , Tobias Gehring

The radiation-pressure driven interaction of a coherent light field with a mechanical oscillator induces correlations between the amplitude and phase quadratures of the light. These correlations result in squeezed light -- light with…

Multimode squeezed states of light have been proposed as a resource for achieving quantum advantage in computing and sensing. Recent experiments that demonstrate multimode Gaussian states to this end have most commonly opted for spatial or…

We introduce a charge coupled device (CCD) camera based detection scheme in dynamic light scattering that provides information on the single-scattered auto-correlation function even for fairly turbid samples. It is based on the single…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Pavel Zakharov , Suresh Bhat , Peter Schurtenberger , Frank Scheffold

We report an experimental quantum key distribution that utilizes balanced homodyne detection, instead of photon counting, to detect weak pulses of coherent light. Although our scheme inherently has a finite error rate, it allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-09-13 T. Hirano , T. Konishi , R. Namiki

We realize and test in experiment a method recently proposed for measuring absolute quantum efficiency of analog photodetectors. Similarly to the traditional (Klyshko) method of absolute calibration, the new one is based on the direct…

As part of the effort to make use of squeezed states of light for detection of sub-shot-noise optical signals, we study the balanced heterodyne scheme, for which the corresponding spectral density of the photocurrent fluctuations produced…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-11-28 Sheng Feng , Zehuan Lu , Jie Zhang , Chenggang Shao

The squeezed photons, as a quantum-correlated light with reduced noise, have emerged as a great resource for sensing the structures of matter. Here we study the transient absorption (TA) scheme using the squeezed photons whose spectral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-29 Jiahao Joel Fan , Feihong Liu , Dangyuan Lei , Zhedong Zhang

Squeezed states of the optical field were theoretically described in the early 1970s and first observed in the mid 1980s. The measured photon number of a squeezed state is correlated with the measured photon numbers of all other squeezed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-28 Roman Schnabel

We propose a novel squeezed light source capable of meeting the stringent requirements of continuous variable quantum sampling. Using the effective $\chi_2$ interaction induced by a strong driving beam in the presence of the $\chi_3$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Z. Vernon , N. Quesada , M. Liscidini , B. Morrison , M. Menotti , K. Tan , J. E. Sipe

We report on the absolute calibration of a CCD camera by exploiting quantum correlation. This novel method exploits a certain number of spatial pairwise quantum correlated modes produced by spontaneous parametric-down-conversion. We develop…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-10-14 I. Ruo-Berchera , A. Meda , I. P. Degiovanni , G. Brida , M. L. Rastello , M. Genovese

Squeezing light is a critical resource in both fundamental physics and precision measurement. The squeezing light has been generated through optical-parametric amplification inside an optical resonator. However, preparing the squeezing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-01-03 Guoyao Li , Zhang-qi Yin

Absorption spectroscopy is a widely used technique that permits the detection and characterization of gas species at low concentrations. We propose a sensing strategy combining the advantages of frequency modulation spectroscopy with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-03-30 Alexandre Belsley

We present an entanglement criterion for two mode squeezed states which relies on particle counting only. The proposed inequality is optimal for the state under consideration and robust against particle losses up to 2/3. As it does not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-09-16 Christine A. Muschik , Eugene S. Polzik , J. Ignacio Cirac

Squeezed light are optical beams with variance below the Shot Noise Level. They are a key resource for quantum technologies based on photons, they can be used to achieve better precision measurements, improve security in quantum key…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-17 Robert Cernansky , Alberto Politi

Quantum light generated in non-degenerate squeezers has many applications such as sub-shot-noise transmission measurements to maximise the information extracted by one photon or quantum illumination to increase the probability in target…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-26 Stefan Frick , Alex McMillan , John Rarity

Storage and retrieval of a squeezed vacuum was successfully demonstrated using electromagnetically induced transparency. 930ns of the squeezed vacuum pulse was incident on the laser cooled 87Rb atoms with an intense control light in a…

Image classification is a core task of intelligent sensing, conventionally follows a sequential imaging then processing pipeline. However, redundant high-dimensional image reconstruction is inherently inefficient, especially in photon…

Intensity squeezing, i.e., photon number fluctuations below the shot noise limit, is a fundamental aspect of quantum optics and has wide applications in quantum metrology. It was predicted in 1979 that the intensity squeezing could be…

We employ quantum state discrimination theory to establish the ultimate limit for spoofing detection in electromagnetic signals encoded with random quantum states. Our analysis yields an analytical expression for the optimal bound, which we…