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Some quantum-mechanical sleight-of-hand can boost detector sensitivity.
The sensitivity of laser-based detectors has dramatically improved, with multiple techniques to hammer down classical noise sources such as laser intensity fluctuations. But eventually, these systems run up against the seemingly intractable shot-noise limit—the noise from statistical quantum fluctuations in the photons making up the beam.
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