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arXiv:0807.4335 · Physical Review A

Rubidium resonant squeezed light from a diode-pumped optical-parametric oscillator

Ana Predojević, Z. Zhai, J. M. Caballero, Morgan W. Mitchell

Published Dec 12, 2008• 43 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate a diode-laser-pumped system for generation of quadrature squeezing and polarization squeezing. Due to their excess phase noise, diode lasers are challenging to use in phase-sensitive quantum optics experiments such as quadrature squeezing. The system we present overcomes the phase noise of the diode laser through a combination of active stabilization and appropriate delays in the local oscillator beam. The generated light is resonant to the rubidium $D1$ transition at $795\phantom{\rule{0.3em}{0ex}}\mathrm{nm}$ and thus can be readily used for quantum memory experiments.

DOI
10.1103/physreva.78.063820

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