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The scientific activity of the group is focussed on the study of the quantum fluctuations of the electromagnetic field. These fluctuations, that limit the precision of optical measurement to a value called standard quantum limit when the experiment is done with a usual light source, have their origin in the Heisenberg inequality on the product of the fluctuations of both quadratures of the field. | ![]() |
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In order to reduce this fundamental noise, one has to act on the field quadrature that is measured in the experiment. Reducing its fluctuations below the standard quantum limit does improve the sensibility of optical measurement. This can be achieved using the interaction between the field and a non-linear medium. The same interaction can also be used to produce entanglement, i.e. strong quantum correlations between the quadratures of two field, or between the field and the medium considered. Updated the 13/01/2004 by Nicolas Treps |
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