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2006 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and 2006 Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference

DOI: 10.1109/cleo.2006.4628886

American Physical Society, Physical Review A, 6(73)

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.73.063824

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Adaptive phase measurements for narrowband squeezed beams

Journal article published in 2006 by Domonic W. Berry, Howard Mark Wiseman ORCID, E. Huntington
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Abstract

We have previously [Phys. Rev. A 65, 043803 (2002)] analyzed adaptive measurements for estimating the continuously varying phase of a coherent beam, and a broadband squeezed beam. A real squeezed beam must have finite photon flux N and hence can be significantly squeezed only over a limited frequency range. In this paper we analyze adaptive phase measurements of this type for a realistic model of a squeezed beam. We show that, provided it is possible to suitably choose the parameters of the beam, a mean-square phase uncertainty scaling as (N/kappa)^{-5/8} is possible, where kappa is the linewidth of the beam resulting from the fluctuating phase. This is an improvement over the (N/kappa)^{-1/2} scaling found previously for coherent beams. In the experimentally realistic case where there is a limit on the maximum squeezing possible, the variance will be reduced below that for coherent beams, though the scaling is unchanged. Yes Yes