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Quantum interference of ultrastable twin beams

Sheng Feng, Olivier Pfister

Published Sep 30, 2003• 1 citation
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Abstract

We report the first measurement of the quantum phase-difference noise of an ultrastable nondegenerate optical parametric oscillator that emits twin beams classically phase-locked at exact frequency degeneracy. The measurement illustrates the property of a lossless balanced beam-splitter to convert number-difference squeezing into phase-difference squeezing and, thus, provides indirect evidence for Heisenberg-limited interferometry using twin beams. This experiment is a generalization of the Hong-Ou-Mandel interference effect for continuous variables, and constitutes a milestone towards continuous-variable entanglement of bright, ultrastable nondegenerate beams.

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