Breakthrough: Light Squeezed On A Quantum Scale
Griffith University researchers push boundaries of light measurement
It is one thing to be able to measure spectacularly small distances using “squeezed” light, but it is now possible to do this even while the target is moving around.
An Australian-Japanese research collaboration made the breakthrough in an experiment conducted at the University of Tokyo, the results of which have been published in an article, “Quantum-enhanced optical phase tracking” in the prestigious journal, Science.
“At the heart of all scientific endeavour is the necessity to be able to measure things precisely,” Professor Wiseman said.
“Because the phase of a light beam changes whenever it passes through or bounces off an object, being able to measure that change is a very powerful tool.”
“By using squeezed light we have broken the standard limits for precision phase tracking, making a fundamental contribution to science,” he said. “But we have also shown that too much squeezing can actually hurt.”
Dr Dominic Berry from Macquarie University has been collaborating with Professor Wiseman on the theory of this problem for many years.
“The key to this experiment has been to combine “phase squeezing” of light waves with feedback control to track a moving phase better than previously possible,” Dr Berry said.
“Ultra-precise quantum-enhanced measurement has been done before, but only with very small phase changes. Now we have shown we can track large phase changes as well,” he said.
Professor Elanor Huntington from UNSW Canberra, who directed the Australian experimental contribution, is a colleague of Professor Wiseman in the Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology.
“By using quantum states of light we made a more precise measurement than is possible through the conventional techniques using laser beams of the same intensity,” Professor Huntington said.
Curiously, we found that it is possible to have too much of a good thing. Squeezing beyond a certain point actually degrades the performance of the measurement making it less precise than if we had used light with no squeezing.”
Participating research organisations: The University of Tokyo, Griffith University, Centre for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (Australian Research Council), University of New South Wales (Canberra), Kyoto University, University of Waterloo (Ontario), Macquarie University, University of Queensland.
Contacts and sources:
Dean Gould
Griffith University
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