{"id":110098,"date":"2020-07-17T09:44:34","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:44:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/mit-light-squeezer-reduces-quantum-noise-in-lasers-enhances-quantum-computing-and-gravitational-wave-detection"},"modified":"2020-07-17T09:44:34","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T16:44:34","slug":"mit-light-squeezer-reduces-quantum-noise-in-lasers-enhances-quantum-computing-and-gravitational-wave-detection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/mit-light-squeezer-reduces-quantum-noise-in-lasers-enhances-quantum-computing-and-gravitational-wave-detection","title":{"rendered":"MIT \u201cLight Squeezer\u201d Reduces Quantum Noise in Lasers, Enhances Quantum Computing and Gravitational-Wave Detection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/mit-light-squeezer-reduces-quantum-noise-in-lasers-enhances-quantum-computing-and-gravitational-wave-detection2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Portable System Boosts Laser Precision, at Room Temperature<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physicists at MIT have designed a quantum \u201clight squeezer\u201d that reduces quantum noise in an incoming laser beam by 15 percent. It is the first system of its kind to work at room temperature, making it amenable to a compact, portable setup that may be added to high-precision experiments to improve laser measurements where quantum noise is a limiting factor.<\/p>\n<p>The heart of the new squeezer is a marble-sized optical cavity, housed in a vacuum chamber and containing two mirrors, one of which is smaller than the diameter of a human hair. The larger mirror stands stationary while the other is movable, suspended by a spring-like cantilever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Portable System Boosts Laser Precision, at Room Temperature Physicists at MIT have designed a quantum \u201clight squeezer\u201d that reduces quantum noise in an incoming laser beam by 15 percent. It is the first system of its kind to work at room temperature, making it amenable to a compact, portable setup that may be added to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-quantum-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110098\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}