Research in Optical Sciences

Generation of planar squeezed states in atomic ensembles

Giorgio Colangelo, N. Behbood, Ferran Martin Ciurana, R. J. Sewell, Graciana Puentes, Morgan W. Mitchell

Published Jan 1, 2014• 0 citations

Abstract

We describe experimental generation of states simultaneously squeezed in two collective spin components by quantum non-demolition measurement. These “planar squeezed states” improve phase estimation at all rotation angles.

DOI: 10.1364/hilas.2014.jw2a.69

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