Sub-shot-noise heterodyne polarimetry.
We report an experimental demonstration of a heterodyne polarization rotation measurement with a noise floor 4.8 dB below the optical shot noise by use of classically phase-locked quantum twin beams emitted above threshold by an ultrastable type II Na:KTP cw optical parametric oscillator. We believe that this is the largest noise reduction achieved to date in optical phase-difference measurements.
Feng
Sheng
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Department of Physics, University of Virginia, 382 McCormick Road, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4714, USA.
Pfister
Olivier
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