Squeezing with fiber Sagnac loop and sub-shot-noise measurement

Squeezed states of light are minimum uncertainty states for which the mean square fluctuations in phase and in quadrature with respect to a reference signal are unequal. Among other interesting properties, they provide improved sensitivity of optical interferometric phase measurements. To understand this potential, one must note that quantum theory imposes measurement uncertainty only on a pair of noncommuting variables; the measurement of any one quantum observable could be done with no uncertainty.<
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