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arXiv:1603.08477 · Modern Physics Letters B

Alteration in non-classicality of light on passing through a linear polarization beam splitter

Namrata Shukla, Ranjana Prakash

Published Jun 21, 2016• 0 citations
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Abstract

We observe the polarization squeezing in the mixture of a two mode squeezed vacuum and a simple coherent light through a linear polarization beam splitter. Squeezed vacuum not being squeezed in polarization, generates polarization squeezed light when superposed with coherent light. All the three Stokes parameters of the light produced on the output port of polarization beam splitter are found to be squeezed and squeezing factor also depends upon the parameters of coherent light.

DOI
10.1142/s0217984916502894

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