Quantum plasmonic sensors

C Lee, B Lawrie, R Pooser, KG Lee… - Chemical …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
The extraordinary sensitivity of plasmonic sensors is well-known in the optics and photonics
community. These sensors exploit simultaneously the enhancement and the localization of …

Quantum sensing with squeezed light

BJ Lawrie, PD Lett, AM Marino, RC Pooser - Acs Photonics, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
The minimum resolvable signal in sensing and metrology platforms that rely on optical
readout fields is increasingly constrained by the standard quantum limit, which is determined …

30 years of squeezed light generation

UL Andersen, T Gehring, C Marquardt… - Physica Scripta, 2016‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Squeezed light generation has come of age. Significant advances on squeezed light
generation have been made over the last 30 years—from the initial, conceptual experiment …

Sensing and tracking enhanced by quantum squeezing

C Xu, L Zhang, S Huang, T Ma, F Liu… - Photonics …, 2019‏ - opg.optica.org
Quantum sensing, along with quantum communications and quantum computing, is
commonly considered as the most important application of quantum optics. Among the …

Quantum magnetic gradiometer with entangled twin light beams

S Wu, G Bao, J Guo, J Chen, W Du, M Shi, P Yang… - Science …, 2023‏ - science.org
In the past few decades, optical magnetometry has experienced remarkable development
and reached to an outstanding sensitivity. For magnetometry based on optical readout of …

Squeezed-light enhancement and backaction evasion in a high sensitivity optically pumped magnetometer

C Troullinou, R Jiménez-Martínez, J Kong… - Physical Review Letters, 2021‏ - APS
We study the effect of optical polarization squeezing on the performance of a sensitive,
quantum-noise-limited optically pumped magnetometer. We use Bell-Bloom (BB) optical …

Hot atomic vapors for nonlinear and quantum optics

Q Glorieux, T Aladjidi, PD Lett, R Kaiser - New Journal of Physics, 2023‏ - iopscience.iop.org
Nonlinear optics has been a very dynamic field of research with spectacular phenomena
discovered mainly after the invention of lasers. The combination of high intensity fields with …

Plasmonic trace sensing below the photon shot noise limit

RC Pooser, B Lawrie - ACS Photonics, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
Plasmonic sensors are important detectors of biochemical trace compounds, but those that
utilize optical readout are approaching their absolute limits of detection as defined by the …

Quantum plasmonic sensing

W Fan, BJ Lawrie, RC Pooser - Physical Review A, 2015‏ - APS
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensors can reach the quantum noise limit of the optical
readout field in various configurations. We demonstrate that two-mode intensity squeezed …

Truncated nonlinear interferometry for quantum-enhanced atomic force microscopy

RC Pooser, N Savino, E Batson, JL Beckey, J Garcia… - Physical Review Letters, 2020‏ - APS
Nonlinear interferometers that replace beam splitters in Mach-Zehnder interferometers with
nonlinear amplifiers for quantum-enhanced phase measurements have drawn increasing …