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We experimentally demonstrate phase-insensitive linear optical amplification which preserves the idler at the output. Since our amplification operation is unitary up to small excess noise, it is reversible beyond the classical limit. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-05-25 Jun-ichi Yoshikawa , Yoshichika Miwa , Radim Filip , Akira Furusawa

Sensing and measurement tasks in severely adverse conditions such as loss, noise and dephasing can be improved by illumination with quantum states of light. Previous results have shown a modest reduction in the number of measurements…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 Alex O. C. Davis , Giacomo Sorelli , Valerian Thiel , Brian J. Smith

Phase estimation in quantum interferometry is a major scenario where the quantum advantage is significantly revealed. Recently, the optimal finite-dimensional probe states (OFPSs) for phase estimation in two-mode quantum interferometry have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Jin-Feng Qin , Jing Liu

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

We experimentally squeeze the thermal motional state of an optically levitated nanosphere, by fast switching between two trapping frequencies. The measured phase space distribution of our particle shows the typical shape of a squeezed…

Optical parametric amplification (OPA) represents a powerful solution to achieve broadband amplification in wavelength ranges beyond the scope of conventional gain media, for generating high-power optical pulses, optical microcombs,…

We address binary phase-shift-keyed communication channels based on Gaussian states and prove that squeezing improves state discrimination at fixed energy of the channel, also in the presence of phase diffusion. We then assess performances…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-03-19 Giovanni Chesi , Stefano Olivares , Matteo G. A. Paris

We experimentally demonstrate that the quantum entanglement between amplitude and phase quadratures of optical modes produced from a non-degenerate optical parametric amplifier (NOPA) can be enhanced and manipulated phase-sensitively by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-16 Yana Shang , Xiaojun Jia , Yumei Shen , Changde Xie , Kunchi Peng

Sparse modeling is one of the efficient techniques for imaging that allows recovering lost information. In this paper, we present a novel iterative phase-retrieval algorithm using a sparse representation of the object amplitude and phase.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2011-08-17 Artem Migukin , Vladimir Katkovnik , Jaakko Astola

Loss and decoherence are a major problem in the transmission of non-classical states of light over large distances. It was recently shown that the effects of decoherence can be reduced by applying a probabilistic noiseless attenuator before…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 R. A. Brewster , T. B. Pittman , J. D. Franson

It is shown in the present Letter that the quantum noise due to high laser intensities in Michelson interferometer for gravitational waves detection can be reduced by sending squeezed vacuum states to the 'dark' port of the interferometer.…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2010-05-27 Yacob Ben-Aryeh

We calculate the utility of high-frequency squeezed-state enhanced two-frequency interferometry for low-frequency phase measurement. To use the high-frequency sidebands of the squeezed light, a two-frequency intense laser is used in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-27 Zehui Zhai , Jiangrui Gao

We report on the design and numerical simulation of a tunable, near-infrared (NIR) femtosecond noncollinear optical parametric amplifier (OPA) seeded by a nonlinear fiber amplifier operating in the parabolic and gain-managed regime. With…

Optics · Physics 2023-05-08 Brittany Lu , Keith Wernsing , Sergio Carbajo

Spin-squeezed states constitute a valuable entanglement resource capable of surpassing the standard quantum limit (SQL). However, spin-squeezed states only enable sub-SQL uncertainty within a narrow parametric window near some specific…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Jinye Wei , Jungeng Zhou , Yi Shen , Jiahao Huang , Chaohong Lee

The precision enhancement is demonstrated in an optical spatial measurement based on weak value amplification (WVA) system and split-like detection, by injecting a TEM$_{10}$ squeezed vacuum beam. It is the first time to experimentally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-10 Chaoxia Zhang , Yongchao Chen , Gang Chen , Hengxin Sun , Jing Zhang , Kui Liu , Rongguo Yang , Jiangrui Gao

Quantum squeezed states, with reduced quantum noise, have been widely utilized in quantum sensing and quantum error correction applications. However, generating and manipulating these nonclassical states with a large squeezing degree…

High-Q optical microresonators combine low losses and high optical energy concentration in a small effective mode volume, making them an attractive platform for optical sensors. While light is confined in the microresonator by total…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-18 Dariya Salykina , Daniil Shakhbaziants , Igor Bilenko , Farid Khalili

Long-distance fiber communication stands as a cornerstone of modern technology. One of the underlying principles, preventing signal levels from diminishing below the detectability threshold, is optical amplification. In particular,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-15 Karol Łukanowski , Konrad Banaszek , Marcin Jarzyna

We investigate the presence of spin- and planar- squeezing in generalized superpositions of atomic (or spin) coherent states (ACS). Spin-squeezing has been shown to be a useful tool in determining the presence of entanglement in…

Optical absorption measurements characterize a wide variety of systems from atomic gases to \emph{in-vivo} diagnostics of living organisms. Here we study the potential of non-classical techniques to reduce statistical noise below the…