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Spectroscopy with Three-Level Atoms in a Squeezed Field

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Quantum Squeezing

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Highly stabilized sources of light generate electromagnetic fields which, even in a vacuum state, exhibit inherent and unavoidable small fluctuations. These fluctuations are often unobservable, however, they are always present and are the source of what we call quantum noise. The fluctuations arise from the quantum nature of electromagnetic field, and it has the long been thought that they were an insuperable barrier to accuracy. In the last two decades theoretical studies followed by experimental measurements have shown that this limitation could be circumvented. The search for light fields with reduced or even completely suppressed fluctuations has become a new subject for physicists to study [1,2]. The possibility of obtaining light fields whose fluctuations are less than those naively expected from the laws of quantum mechanics allows researchers to perform experiments with greater precision than possible with laser light.

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Ficek, Z. (2004). Spectroscopy with Three-Level Atoms in a Squeezed Field. In: Drummond, P.D., Ficek, Z. (eds) Quantum Squeezing. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 27. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09645-1_9

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