High efficiency photodetection below the quantum noise limit
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Bullard, Elizabeth Caryn![Thumbnail](/bitstream/handle/1721.1/32842/61357098-MIT.pdf.jpg?sequence=5&isAllowed=y)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics.
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Nergis Mavalvala.
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Two low-noise, high quantum efficiency, high bandwidth photodetectors have constructed to form a balanced homodyne detector to detect squeezed light. The detectors have quantum efficiencies of 85% and 90%, a bandwidth of 1MHz, and a dark noise of ... at 1MHz.
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Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Physics, 2005. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 49-50).
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2005Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of PhysicsPublisher
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Physics.