Squeezing

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In quantum optics, squeezing means that a quadrature of a light field (analogous to position and momentum of a quantum harmonic oscillator) fluctuates less than the vacuum. In order to respect the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, the conjugate quadrature must have excess noise.

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