SPECTROSCOPY WITH SQUEEZED LIGHT

被引:387
作者
POLZIK, ES
CARRI, J
KIMBLE, HJ
机构
[1] Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics 12-33, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.68.3020
中图分类号
O4 [物理学];
学科分类号
0702 ;
摘要
A frequency-tunable source of squeezed light is employed for spectroscopic measurements of atomic cesium. Relative to the usual quantum limit associated with vacuum-state fluctuations, enhanced sensitivity is demonstrated for the detection of Doppler-free resonances in saturation spectroscopy, with an improvement of 3.1 dB directly observed and 3.8 dB inferred after correcting for detector thermal noise.
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页码:3020 / 3023
页数:4
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