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Lecture

Optomechanical squeezing

Description

This lecture covers the concept of optomechanical squeezing, where radiation pressure modifies the quantum properties of light beams. Topics include optomechanical correlations, noise spectrum, experimental realization, system transfer function, and beating the SQL with optomechanical correlations.

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