Lifting the bandwidth limit of optical homodyne measurement with broadband parametric amplification

Standard homodyne detection is intrinsically limited by the electronic bandwidth of the photo-detectors. Here, the authors exploit parametric amplification to demonstrate sub-shot-noise optical quadrature measurement across a bandwidth of 55 THz.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yaakov Shaked, Yoad Michael, Rafi Z. Vered, Leon Bello, Michael Rosenbluh, Avi Pe’er
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03083-5