High efficiency photodetection below the quantum noise limit

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Bullard, Elizabeth Caryn
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Physics.
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Nergis Mavalvala.
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Abstract
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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2005
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http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/32842
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Physics.
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