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Physical Review A

Lossless transformation of coherent light into amplitude-squeezed light

Klaus M. Gheri, Daniel F. Walls

Published Dec 1, 1992• 13 citations
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Abstract

We show that the use of weakly probed three-level atoms in the \ensuremath{\Lambda} configuration as a nonlinear medium inside an optical cavity enables the almost lossless transformation of an incoming strong coherent light beam into an outgoing amplitude-squeezed light beam.
DOI
10.1103/physreva.46.r6793

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