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Time-resolved pulsed homodyne detector and its application to measurement of pulsed squeezed states

Ryuhi Okubo, Mayumi Hirano, Yun Zhang, Takuya Hirano, Alexander I. Lvovsky

Published Jan 1, 2009• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report a pulsed homodyne detector that operates in the time domain and can measure individual pulses at a repetition rate of 76 MHz. The individuality of the measurement is interrogated by correlation coefficient between adjacent pulses. The homodyne detector is composed of a low‐noise high‐speed operational amplifier. We observed 2.3 dB of squeezing in both the time and frequency domains.

DOI
10.1063/1.3131298

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