Abstract-Direct Detection of Vacuum Fluctuations of the Multi-Terahertz Electric Field

Alfred Leitenstorfer, Claudius Riek, and Denis V. Seletskiy
https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?uri=nlo-2015-NM3A.7

We show that ultrabroadband electro-optic sampling in free space is able to directly detect the vacuum fluctuations of the electric field, opening up a time-domain approach to quantum statistics that operates on the sub-cycle scale.

© 2015 OSA

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