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A Quantum Laser Pointer
Abstract
The measurement sensitivity of the pointing direction of a laser beam is ultimately limited by the quantum nature of light. To reduce this limit, we have experimentally produced a quantum laser pointer, a beam of light whose direction is measured with a precision greater than that possible for a usual laser beam. The laser pointer is generated by combining three different beams in three orthogonal transverse modes, two of them in a squeezed-vacuum state and one in an intense coherent field. The result provides a demonstration of multichannel spatial squeezing, along with its application to the improvement of beam positioning sensitivity and, more generally, to imaging.
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- Authors
- Treps, N., Grosse, N., Bowen, W. P., Fabre, C., Bachor, H.-A., & Lam, P. K.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 2003-08-15
- Volume
- 301
- Issue
- 5635
- Pages
- 940-943
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2032398431
- Cited by
- 329
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 10.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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