Quantum-noise reduction using a cavity with a movable mirror
Abstract
Because of radiation pressure, an optical cavity with harmonically bound mirrors has an intensity-dependent length and behaves as an effective Kerr medium. We determine the quantum fluctuations of the field reflected by such a cavity, taking into account the input field fluctuations and the mirror Brownian motion. In the regions of parameter space close to bistability turning points, we obtain a significant quantum-noise reduction effect.
- Publication:
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Physical Review A
- Pub Date:
- February 1994
- DOI:
- 10.1103/PhysRevA.49.1337
- Bibcode:
- 1994PhRvA..49.1337F
- Keywords:
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- 42.50.Lc;
- 42.65.Vh;
- Quantum fluctuations quantum noise and quantum jumps