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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 report quantum enhancement of Faraday rotation spin noise spectroscopy by polarization squeezing of the probe beam. Using natural abundance Rb in 100 Torr of N_2 buffer gas, and squeezed light from a sub-threshold optical parametric…

Squeezed light is injected into the dark port of gravitational wave interferometers, in order to reduce the quantum noise. A fraction of the interferometer output light can reach the OPO due to sub-optimal isolation of the squeezing…

We show for the first time that it is possible to realize laser beam focusing at the few-photon level in the four-wave-mixing process, and at the same time, reducing the quantum uncertainty in width. The reduction in quantum uncertainty…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-03-06 Lida Zhang , G. S. Argarwal , M. O. Scully

A new method for measuring the linewidth enhancement factor of a laser is proposed. It is based on frequency-modulated optical injection, combined with dual-frequency laser operation. The linewidth enhancement factor {\alpha} is deduced…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-05 Aurélien Thorette , Marco Romanelli , Marc Vallet

Diffuse optical imaging (DOI) offers valuable insights into scattering mediums, but the quest for high-resolution imaging often requires dense sampling strategies, leading to higher imaging errors and lengthy acquisition times. This work…

Optics · Physics 2025-04-07 Ben Wiesel , Shlomi Arnon

We study the photon counting noise in optical interferometers used for gravitational wave detection. In order to reduce quantum noise a squeezed vacuum is injected into the usually unused input port. It is investigated under which…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-21 Volodymyr G. Voronov , Michael Weyrauch

Recently, computational sampling methods have been implemented to spatially characterize terahertz (THz) fields. Previous methods usually rely on either specialized THz devices such as THz spatial light modulators, or complicated systems…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-19 Jiapeng Zhao , Yiwen E , Kaia Williams , Xi-cheng Zhang , Robert Boyd

Strongly squeezed states of light are a key technology in boosting the sensitivity of interferometric setups, such as in gravitational-wave detectors. However, the practical use of squeezed states is limited by optical loss, which reduces…

Weak squeezed vacuum light, especially resonant to the atomic transition, plays an important role in quantum storage and generation of various quantum sources. However, the general homodyne detection (HD) cannot determine weak squeezing due…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Guanhua Zuo , Yuchi Zhang , Jing Li , Shiyao Zhu , Yanqiang Guo , Tiancai Zhang

Weak measurement amplification, which is considered as a very promising scheme in precision measurement, has been applied to various small physical quantities estimation. Since many quantities can be converted to phase signal, it is thus…

Starting from the observation that the correlation coefficient defined by the scattered field data tested by two adjacent antennas decreases with the noise, it turns out that the imaging performance can be improved by adding non-redundant…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-01-08 Xinhui Zhang , Naike Du , Jing Wang , Andrea Massa , Xiuzhu Ye

Optically levitated nanoparticles in vacuum provide a highly sensitive platform for probing weak light-matter interactions. In this work, we present an interference-based method to amplify the optical force exerted by a weak field on a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Seyed K. Alavi , Youssef Ezzo , Ashik Pulikkathara , Sungkun Hong

We present the reduction and manipulation of quantum radiation pressure noise (QRPN) in an optomechanical cavity with the injection of squeezed light. The optomechanical system consists of a high-reflectivity single-crystal microresonator…

The viability of quantum communication schemes rely on sending quantum states of light over long distances. However, transmission loss can degrade the signal strength, adding noise. Heralded noiseless amplification of a quantum signal can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-20 Joseph Ho , Allen Boston , Matthew Palsson , Geoff Pryde

Stimulated Raman scattering (SRS) is a powerful method for label-free imaging and spectroscopy of materials. Recent experiments have shown that quantum-enhanced Raman scattering can surpass the shot noise limit and improve the sensitivity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-27 Frank Schlawin , Manuel Gessner

Squeezed states of light are used for precision metrology and quantum-enhanced measurements, with applications spanning communication and sensing. State-of-the-art squeezed-light sources typically rely on optical cavities to achieve high,…

Optics · Physics 2026-03-30 Erik Anders Torsten Svanberg , Daniel Voigt , Vaishali Adya

Around the globe several observatories are seeking the first direct detection of gravitational waves (GWs). These waves are predicted by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity [Einstein, A., Annalen der Physik 49, 769-822 (1916)] and are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-08-27 The LIGO Scientific Collaboration

We report on an optical magnetometer enhanced by vacuum-squeezed light, employing an Mx magnetometer based on $^{87}$Rb vapor in a micrometer-scale cell (~100 $\mu$m). Using the well-established polarization self-rotation effect in a…

A protocol employing weak values (WVs) to obtain ultra sensitive amplification of weak signals in the context of a solid state setup is proposed. We consider an Aharonov-Bohm interferometer where both the orbital and the spin degrees of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-02-18 Oded Zilberberg , Alessandro Romito , Yuval Gefen