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We observe -9.01$\pm$0.14 dB of squeezing and +15.12$\pm$0.14 dB of antisqueezing with a local oscillator phase locked in homodyne measurement. In reference [1], two main factors are pointed out which degrade the observed squeezing level:…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Yuishi Takeno , Mitsuyoshi Yukawa , Hidehiro Yonezawa , Akira Furusawa

Recent advances in optical imaging and communication increasingly involve high-dimensional, partially coherent light, creating a growing need for scalable tools to measure and manipulate coherence. Here, we demonstrate the automatic…

The maximum baseline, and therefore resolution, of optical astronomical interferometers is limited by attenuation and phase noise within the optical path between the apertures and beam combiner, as well as the practical challenges of…

We introduce a novel measurement method for the phase noise measurement of optical amplifiers, topologically similar to the Heterodyne Mach-Zehnder Interferometer but governed by different principles, and we report on the measurement of a…

Heterodyne interferometry for precision science often comes with an optical phase modulation, for example, for intersatellite clock noise transfer for gravitational wave (GW) detectors in space, exemplified by the Laser Interferometer Space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-22 Kohei Yamamoto , Olaf Hartwig , Lennart Wissel , Holly Leopardi , Kenji Numata , Ryan Derosa

We report a single-photon Mach-Zehnder interferometer stabilized to a phase precision of 0.05 degrees over 15 hours. To lock the phase, we employ an auxiliary reference light at a different wavelength than the quantum signal. The developed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-12 Vojtěch Švarc , Martina Nováková , Michal Dudka , Miroslav Ježek

Stochastically driven nonlinear processes limit the number of amplified modes in a natural system due to competitive mode interaction, which is accompanied by loss of coherence when increasing the complexity of system. Specifically, we find…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-21 Lei Gao , Tao Zhu , Stefan Wabnitz , Min Liu , Wei Huang

We study the effect of noise on the dynamics of passively mode-locked semiconductor lasers both experimentally and theoretically. A method combining analytical and numerical approaches for estimation of pulse timing jitter is proposed. We…

We introduce and experimentally implement Fourier-plane phase synchronization for optical microscopy, and demonstrate its performance with interferometric scattering microscopy. By combining a photothermal phase plate and laser beam…

Laser synchronization is a technique that locks the wavelength of a free-running laser to that of the reference laser, thereby enabling synchronous changes in the wavelengths of the two lasers. This technique is of crucial importance in…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-23 Mingwen Zhu , Shangsu Ding , Tianwei Jiang , Jianming Shang , Song Yu , Bin Luo

Active optical frequency standards provide interesting alternatives to their passive counterparts. Particularly, such a clock alone continuously generates highly-stable narrow-line laser radiation. Thus a local oscillator is not required to…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2022-12-07 Georgy A. Kazakov , Swadheen Dubey , Anna Bychek , Uwe Sterr , Marcin Bober , Michał Zawada

A theoretical investigation on the quantum control of optical coherent four-wave mixing interactions in two-level systems driven by two intense synchronized femtosecond laser pulses of central angular frequencies $\omega$ and $3\omega$ is…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-10 Carles Serrat

The phase randomized light is one of the key assumptions in the security proof of Bennett-Brassard 1984 (BB84) quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol implemented with an attenuated laser. Though the assumption has been believed to be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Toshiya Kobayashi , Akihisa Tomita , Atsushi Okamoto

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has proven to be a powerful technique for studying tissue morphology in ophthalmology, cardiology, and endomicroscopy. Its performance is limited by the fundamental trade-off between the imaging…

Optics · Physics 2008-02-27 Keisuke Goda , Daniel R. Solli , Bahram Jalali

This article presents some of the more topical results of a study into the LISA phase measurement system. This system is responsible for measuring the phase of the heterodyne signal caused by the interference of the laser beams between the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 David Summers , David Hoyland

While characterization of coherent wavefields is essential to laser, x-ray and electron imaging, sensors measure the squared magnitude of the field, rather than the field itself. Holography or phase retrieval must be used to characterize…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-10 David J. Brady , Timothy J. Schulz , Chengyu Wang

An optical atomic clock scheme is developed that utilizes two lasers to establish coherent coupling between the $5s^2 \phantom{}^1S_0$ ground state of $^{88}$Sr and the first excited state, $5s5p \phantom{}^3P_0$. The coupling is mediated…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Robin Santra , Ennio Arimondo , Tetsuya Ido , Chris H. Greene , Jun Ye

Grating lobes arise from the periodic nature of element spacing in the optical phased array. Essentially, the phased array performs the Spatial Fourier Transform on light; the steering capability of the main lobe is governed by phase shift…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-20 Bowen Yu , Dachuan Wu , Yasha Yi

An enduring challenge in constructing mechanical oscillator-based hybrid quantum systems is to ensure engineered coupling to an auxiliary degree of freedom while maintaining good mechanical isolation from the environment, that is, low…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-21 Amir Youssefi , Shingo Kono , Mahdi Chegnizadeh , Tobias J. Kippenberg

In this paper phase of a signal has been viewed from a different angle. According to this view a signal can have countably infinitely many phases, one associated with each Fourier component. In other words each frequency has a phase…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2008-04-25 Kaushik Majumdar