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The success story of squeezed light

2023/07/17 by Roman Schnabel, Schnabel, Roman
Medicine · #FOS: Physical sciences #Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Ocular and Laser Science Research #Quantum Physics (quant-ph)

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2307.08394

openalex publication_date 2023/07/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Squeezed states of the optical field were theoretically described in the early 1970s and first observed in the mid 1980s. The measured photon number of a squeezed state is correlated with the measured photon numbers of all other squeezed states of the same ensemble, providing sub-Poissonian statistics. Today all gravitational-wave observatories use squeezed light as the cost-efficient alternative to further scaling up the light power. This user application of quantum correlations was made possible through dedicated research and development of squeezed light between 2002 and 2010.

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