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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Soliton amplitude squeezing without spectral filtering

Mordechai Margalit, Erich P. Ippen, H. A. Haus

Published Nov 27, 2002• 1 citation
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Abstract

Summary form only given.Recently, a novel way of generating an amplitude-squeezed state using the Kerr nonlinearity has been demonstrated. In this scheme, a pulse with an energy greater than that of the fundamental soliton is launched into an optical fiber with a length of several soliton periods. At the fiber output, the pulse is filtered and detected. The resulting photocurrent has a noise level lower then the shot noise, indicating an amplitude-squeezed state. Here, we demonstrate that soliton amplitude squeezing can be obtained without postfiltering.

DOI
10.1109/iqec.1998.680347

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