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Lensless Fluorescent Microscopy on a Chip
Published on: August 17, 2011
On-chip squeezed light in the audio frequency band
Xuezhi Zhu1, Yunyun Cao1, Rui Liu1
1State Key Laboratory of Quantum Optics Technologies and Devices, Institute of Opto-Electronics, Shanxi University, Taiyuan 030006, China.
Abstract:
Squeezed light in the audio-frequency band is a key resource for quantum metrology and quantum sensing. However, realizing stable audio-frequency squeezed light on integrated photonic platforms remains challenging due to technical noise and the difficulty of scalable phase referencing. Here, we demonstrate on-chip generation of audio-band two-mode squeezed states down to 60 Hz in a silica microcavity. To enable phase-stable operation without directly locking fragile quantum modes, we develop a coherent-comb control method in which a weak electro-optic reference comb co-propagates with the vacuum at the quantum frequency modes in an orthogonal polarization. This scheme provides quadrature measurement and long-timescale phase stability, thereby enabling covariance-matrix reconstruction. We verify the entanglement with the positive partial transposition criterion, which confirms inseparability via a minimum symplectic eigenvalue of 0.395 (<0.5). Our results establish an experimentally accessible route toward on-chip phase-stable audio-band squeezing and support the scalable framework for continuous-variable quantum information processing with integrated photonics.
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