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We present the experimental measurement of a squeezed vacuum state by means of a bichromatic local oscillator (BLO). A pair of local oscillators at $\pm$5 MHz around the central frequency $\omega_{0}$ of the fundamental field with equal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Wei Li , Xudong Yu , Jing Zhang

We present the measurement of squeezed light generation using an engineered optomechanical system fabricated from a silicon microchip and composed of a micromechanical resonator coupled to a nanophotonic cavity. Laser light is used to…

In this paper we describe that the optically pumped frequency standards can have frequency stability beyond the quantum noise limit by detecting the Ramsey resonance through the squeezed light. In this paper we report that instead of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-04-08 G. M. Saxena

We report on the use of an optically-trapped microsphere as an acoustic transducer. A model for the hydrodynamic coupling between the microsphere and the surrounding acoustic fluid flow is combined with thermo-mechanical calibration of the…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Logan E. Hillberry , Mark G. Raizen

The preparation of mechanical quadrature-squeezed states holds significant importance in cavity optomechanics because the squeezed states have extensive applications in understanding fundamental quantum mechanics and exploiting modern…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-27 Yu-Hong Liu , Jie-Qiao Liao

We study the photon counting noise in optical interferometers used for gravitational wave detection. In order to reduce quantum noise a squeezed vacuum state is injected into the usually unused input port. Here, we specifically investigate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 Michael Weyrauch , Volodymyr G. Voronov

In this work, we describe an updated version of single arm locking, and the noise amplification due to the nulls can be flexibly restricted with the help of optical frequency comb. We show that, the laser phase noise can be divided by a…

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

Squeezed states of light enable enhanced measurement precision by reducing noise below the standard quantum limit. A key application of squeezed light is nonlinear microscopy, where state-of-the-art performance is limited by photodamage and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Alex Terrasson , Lars Madsen , Joel Grim , Warwick Bowen

We quantify how squeezed light can reduce quantum measurement noise to levels below the standard quantum limit in impulse measurements with mechanical detectors. The broadband nature of the signal implies that frequency-dependent squeezing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-17 Tsai-Chen Lee , Jacob L. Beckey , Giacomo Marocco , Daniel Carney

Squeezed mechanical states are a highly coveted resource for quantum-enhanced sensing and serve as a compelling platform for probing the interplay between gravity and quantum mechanics. It has been predicted that a mechanical oscillator can…

We analyze squeezing of the nanoresonator state produced by periodic measurement of position by a quantum point contact or a single-electron transistor. The mechanism of squeezing is the stroboscopic quantum nondemolition measurement…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rusko Ruskov , Keith Schwab , Alexander N. Korotkov

Strongly squeezed light finds many important applications within the fields of quantum metrology, quantum communication and quantum computation. However, due to the bulkiness and complexity of most squeezed light sources of today, they are…

We study squeezed states of phonons, which allow a reduction in the quantum fluctuations of the atomic displacements to below the zero-point quantum noise level of coherent phonon states. We investigate the generation of squeezed phonon…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-10-30 X. Hu , Franco Nori

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

Injection locking is a powerful technique for synchronization of oscillator networks and controlling the phase and frequency of individual oscillators using similar or other types of oscillators. Here, we present the first demonstration of…

Optics · Physics 2018-05-09 Ke Huang , Mani Hossein-Zadeh

We propose a protocol to measure impulses beyond the standard quantum limit. The protocol reduces noise in all three spatial dimensions and consists of squeezing a mechanical system's state via a series of jumps in the frequency of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Giacomo Marocco , David C. Moore , Daniel Carney

We propose a tunable resonant sensor to detect gravitational waves in the frequency range of 50-300 kHz using optically trapped and cooled dielectric microspheres or micro-discs. The technique we describe can exceed the sensitivity of…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-05 Asimina Arvanitaki , Andrew A. Geraci

We demonstrate continuous tuning of the squeezing level generated in a double-ring optical parametric oscillator by externally controlling the coupling condition using electrically controlled integrated microheaters. We accomplish this by…

We experimentally demonstrate the optical frequency tuning of a squeezed vacuum state generated from an optical parametric oscillator by using an acousto-optic modulator based bi-frequency interferometer. The systematic efficiency of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-12 Qiqi Deng , Wenqi Li , Xueshi Guo , Xiaoying Li