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Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE

Squeezing in detuned second-harmonic generation

M. K. Olsen, Silvio Cesar Garcia Granja, R. J. Horowicz

Published Jul 19, 1999• 0 citations
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Abstract

We investigate the effects of cavity detuning on the rotation and displacement of the uncertainty ellipse in cavity second harmonic generation. This is of topical interest due to recent work on quantum tomography, which allows experimental measurement of the Wigner function for light fields. We also investigate to what extent the decrease in quadrature squeezing with detuning can be attributed solely to the resulting depletion of the intra- cavity fields.

DOI
10.1117/12.354915

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