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The standard process for the production of strongly squeezed states of light is optical parametric amplification (OPA) below threshold in dielectric media such as LiNbO3 or periodically poled KTP. Here, we present a graphical description of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-05 Joeran Bauchrowitz , Tobias Westphal , Roman Schnabel

Continuous-wave (cw) squeezed states of light have applications in sensing, metrology and secure communication. In recent decades their efficient generation has been based on parametric down-conversion, which requires pumping by externally…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-04 Amrit Pal Singh , Stefan Ast , Moritz Mehmet , Henning Vahlbruch , Roman Schnabel

We theoretically study radiation pressure induced generation of the frequency components at the sum sideband in an optomechanical system containing an optical parametric amplifier (OPA). It is shown that an OPA inside a cavity can…

Optics · Physics 2019-09-24 Wen-An Li , Guang-Yao Huang

In a strongly pumped non-degenerate traveling-wave OPA, we produce two-color squeezed vacuum with up to millions of photons per pulse. Our approach to registering this macroscopic quantum state is direct detection of a large number of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-04-03 Ivan N. Agafonov , Maria V. Chekhova , Gerd Leuchs

The advent of stable, highly squeezed states of light has generated great interest in the gravitational wave community as a means for improving the quantumnoise- limited performance of advanced interferometric detectors. To confidently…

We demonstrate experimentally the simultaneous generation and detection of two types of continuous variable nonclassical states from one type-0 phase-matching optical parametric amplification (OPA) and subsequent two ring filter cavities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-28 Long Tian , Shaoping Shi , Yuhang Tian , Yajun Wang , Yaohui Zheng , Kunchi Peng

We experimentally study a protocol of using the broadband high frequency squeezed vacuum to detect the low-frequency signal. In this scheme, the lower sideband field of the squeezed light carries the low frequency modulation signal and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-09-13 Wei Li , Yuanbin Jin , Xudong Yu , Jing Zhang

We theoretically study how quantum measurement noise can be engineered in a hybrid cavitymagnomechanical platform for precision force sensing. The proposed configuration consists of a driven optomechanical cavity, with a movable mirror on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-20 Alolika Roy , Amarendra K. Sarma

We demonstrate the simultaneous quantum state reconstruction of the spectral modes of the light field emitted by a continuous wave degenerate optical parametric amplifier. The scheme is based on broadband measurement of the quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Gerd Breitenbach , Fabrizio Illuminati , Stephan Schiller , Jurgen Mlynek

The largely technical noise of a free running laser is the fundamental limit for preparation of a bright squeezed light, especially within MHz band. We construct a universal and complete theoretical model for nonclassical stabilization, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-09-23 Ruixin Li , Bingnan An , Nanjing Jiao , Junyang Liu , Lirong Chen , Yajun Wang , Yaohui Zheng

The sensitivity of future gravitational wave interferometers is expected to be limited through-out the detection band by quantum vacuum fluctuations, which can be reduced by quantum non-demolition methods such as squeezed vacuum injection.…

We propose and demonstrate a coherent control scheme for stable phase locking of squeezed vacuum fields. We focus on sideband fields at frequencies from 10Hz to 10kHz which is a frequency regime of particular interest in gravitational wave…

Squeezed vacuum states enable optical measurements below the quantum limit and hence are a valuable resource for applications in quantum metrology and also quantum communication. However, most available sources require high pump powers in…

We present squeezing and anti-squeezing spectra of the output from a degenerate optical parametric oscillator (OPO) network arranged in different coherent quantum feedback configurations. One OPO serves as a quantum plant, the other as a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-13 Orion Crisafulli , Nikolas Tezak , Daniel B. S. Soh , Michael A. Armen , Hideo Mabuchi

Improving multiparameter quantum estimation in magnonic systems via quantum noise suppression is a well-established and critical research objective. In this work, we propose an experimentally realistic scheme to improve the precision of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Hamza Harraf , Mohamed Amazioug , Rachid Ahl Laamara

It has recently become possible to encode the quantum state of superconducting qubits and the position of nanomechanical oscillators into the states of microwave fields. However, to make an ideal measurement of the state of a qubit, or to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-02-04 M. A. Castellanos-Beltran , K. D. Irwin , G. C. Hilton , L. R. Vale , K. W. Lehnert

The continuous variable quantum state generated by time-domain multiplexed optical parametric amplifier (OPA) is attractive because of the potential of enlarging the mode scale. Currently, the duration of temporal mode is longer than 100 ns…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Wen Zhao , Xiao Liu , Yunxiao Zhang , Xueshi Guo , Xiaoying Li

To date, frequency-dependent squeezed light has been used to reduce quantum noise in interferometric gravitational wave detectors by 6.1 dB (a factor of two). Future upgrades and detectors aim to both reduce quantum noise by 10 dB (a factor…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-28 Kevin Kuns , Daniel Brown

We demonstrate a device that allows for the coherent analysis of a pair of optical frequency sidebands in an arbitrary basis. We show that our device is quantum noise limited and hence applications for this scheme may be found in discrete…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. H. Huntington , G. N. Milford , C. Robilliard , T. C. Ralph

Cavity optomechanical (COM) sensors, enhanced by quantum squeezing or entanglement, have become powerful tools for measuring ultra-weak forces with high precision and sensitivity. However, these sensors usually rely on linear COM couplings,…