High efficiency photodetection below the quantum noise limit

Two low-noise, high quantum efficiency, high bandwidth photodetectors have constructed to form a balanced homodyne detector to detect squeezed light. The detectors have quantum efficiencies of 85% and 90%, a bandwidth of 1MHz, and a dark noise of ... at 1MHz.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2005

Author dc:creator

• Bullard, Elizabeth Caryn

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Nergis Mavalvala.

• Physics.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

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eng

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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32842

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oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/32842