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Broadband squeezer of microwave light

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‘Squeezing’ of light can be used to alter the distribution of quantum noise to benefit quantum sensing and other applications. An improved design for a microwave photon squeezer provides high performance over a large bandwidth.

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Fig. 1: The generation of single-mode and two-mode squeezing.

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