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Sum-frequency generation from photon number squeezed light

Ling-An Wu, Cong-Shi Du, Mei-Juan Wu, Shiqun Li

Published May 1, 1994• 0 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the quantum fluctuations of the fields produced in sum-frequency (SF) generation from light initially in the photon number squeezed state. It is found that, to the fourth power term, the output SF light is sub-Poissonian whereas the quantum fluctuations of the input beams increase. Quantum anticorrelation also exists in SF generation.

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Sum squeezing of the field amplitude is studied in the nondegenerate and degenerate frequency upconversion process under the short interaction time. A state is squeezed when the quantum fluctuation (amplitude noise or phase noise) in one variable is reduced below the symmetric limit at the expense of the increased quantum fluctuation in the conjugate variable such that the Heisenberg uncertainty relation is not violated. It is shown that sum squeezing can be converted into normal squeezing via sum-frequency generation in the nondegenerate frequency upconversion process, while the amplitude-squared squeezing of the fundamental mode directly changed into the squeezing of the harmonic in the degenerate frequency upconversion process. All reachable conditions of uncorrelated modes for obtaining a sum squeezing in two modes and its dependence on the squeezing of individual field modes are investigated. It is found that the squeezed states are associated with large number of pump photons. It is also confirmed that the higher-order squeezing (sum squeezing) is directly associated with coupling of the field and interaction time. The results obtained in this chapter are of interest for new experiments on the study of nonlinear optical processes in dielectric media using ultrashort intense laser pulses as exciting radiation, and the effects of damping and decoherence as well as higher-order time terms could be investigated.
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