Vacuum fluctuations and the conditional homodyne detection of squeezed light Academic Article

abstract

• Conditional homodyne detection of quadrature squeezing is compared with standard nonconditional detection. Whereas the latter identifies nonclassicality in a quantitative way, as a reduction of the noise power below the shot noise level, conditional detection makes a qualitative , distinction between vacuum state squeezing and squeezed classical noise. Implications of this comparison for the realistic interpretation of vacuum fluctuations (stochastic electrodynamics) are discussed.

authors

• Nha, Hyunchul

published proceedings

• JOURNAL OF OPTICS B-QUANTUM AND SEMICLASSICAL OPTICS

author list (cited authors)

• Carmichael, H. J., & Nha, H.

citation count

• 4

complete list of authors

• Carmichael, HJ||Nha, H

publication date

• August 2004

publisher

• IOP Publishing  Publisher

published in

• Journal of optics. B, Quantum and semiclassical optics : journal of the European Optical Society  Journal

keywords

• Conditional Homodyne Detection
• Quadrature Squeezing
• Shot Noise
• Vacuum Fluctuations

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1088/1464-4266/6/8/004

start page

• S645

end page

• S651

volume

• 6

issue

• 8

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1464-4266/6/8/004