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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe & European Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-EQEC)

Polarization squeezing with photonic crystal fibers

J. Milanovic, Alexander Huck, J. Heersink, Christoph Marquardt, Ulrik L. Andersen, Gerd Leuchs

Published Jun 1, 2007• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report on the generation of polarization squeezed states employing intense, ultrashort light pulses by a single pass method in photonic crystal fibers. We investigated the squeezing behavior near the zero-dispersion wavelength and in the anomalous dispersion regime by using two distinct fibers.
DOI
10.1109/cleoe-iqec.2007.4386902

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