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Title: Quantum Sensing with Squeezed Light

Abstract

The minimum resolvable signal in sensing and metrology platforms that rely on optical readout fields is increasingly constrained by the standard quantum limit, which is determined by the sum of photon shot noise and back-action noise. Here, a combination of back-action and shot noise reduction techniques will be critical to the development of the next generation of sensors for applications ranging from high-energy physics to biochemistry and for novel microscopy platforms capable of resolving material properties that were previously obscured by quantum noise. This Perspective reviews the dramatic advances made in the use of squeezed light for sub-shot-noise quantum sensing in recent years and highlights emerging applications that enable new science based on signals that would otherwise be obscured by noise at the standard quantum limit.

Authors:
ORCiD logo [1];  [2];  [3]; ORCiD logo [1]
  1. Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
  2. Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States)
  3. The Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1557517
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-00OR22725
Resource Type:
Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
ACS Photonics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 6; Journal Issue: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher:
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION; quantum sensing; squeezing; quantum noise reduction; continuous variable quantum optics

Citation Formats

Lawrie, Benjamin J., Lett, Paul D., Marino, Alberto M., and Pooser, Raphael C. Quantum Sensing with Squeezed Light. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.1021/acsphotonics.9b00250.
Lawrie, Benjamin J., Lett, Paul D., Marino, Alberto M., & Pooser, Raphael C. Quantum Sensing with Squeezed Light. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.9b00250
Lawrie, Benjamin J., Lett, Paul D., Marino, Alberto M., and Pooser, Raphael C. 2019. "Quantum Sensing with Squeezed Light". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsphotonics.9b00250. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1557517.
@article{osti_1557517,
title = {Quantum Sensing with Squeezed Light},
author = {Lawrie, Benjamin J. and Lett, Paul D. and Marino, Alberto M. and Pooser, Raphael C.},
abstractNote = {The minimum resolvable signal in sensing and metrology platforms that rely on optical readout fields is increasingly constrained by the standard quantum limit, which is determined by the sum of photon shot noise and back-action noise. Here, a combination of back-action and shot noise reduction techniques will be critical to the development of the next generation of sensors for applications ranging from high-energy physics to biochemistry and for novel microscopy platforms capable of resolving material properties that were previously obscured by quantum noise. This Perspective reviews the dramatic advances made in the use of squeezed light for sub-shot-noise quantum sensing in recent years and highlights emerging applications that enable new science based on signals that would otherwise be obscured by noise at the standard quantum limit.},
doi = {10.1021/acsphotonics.9b00250},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1557517}, journal = {ACS Photonics},
issn = {2330-4022},
number = 6,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon May 13 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Mon May 13 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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