Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Evidence for deamplification of quantum noise by nondegenerate four-wave mixing

M. D. Levenson, Robert M. Shelby, Ralph G. DeVoe, Stephen H. Perlmutter

Published Jan 1, 1986• 0 citations

Abstract

Experiments on squeezed state generation have yielded measured noise levels very near the quantum limit (as defined experimentally), even when the nonlinear interaction is strong enough to suppress classical noise by several decibels.1,2 The problem has been that the nonlinear media create noise by light scattering and fluorescence.

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