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quant-ph2022
Back action evasion in optical lever detection
Shan Hao, Thomas Purdy
The optical lever is a centuries old and widely-used detection technique employed in applications ranging from consumer products, industrial sensors to precision force microscopes…
quant-ph2013★ 422 cited
Strong Optomechanical Squeezing of Light
T. P. Purdy, P. -L. Yu, R. W. Peterson +2
We create squeezed light by exploiting the quantum nature of the mechanical interaction between laser light and a membrane mechanical resonator embedded in an optical cavity. The r…
quant-ph2012★ 407 cited
Observation of Radiation Pressure Shot Noise on a Macroscopic Object
T. P. Purdy, R. W. Peterson, C. A. Regal
The quantum mechanics of position measurement of a macroscopic object is typically inaccessible because of strong coupling to the environment and classical noise. Here we monitor a…