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Optics Letters

Squeezed light from conventionally pumped multilevel lasers

Timothy C. Ralph, Craig M. Savage

Published Jul 15, 1991• 50 citations
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Abstract

We calculate amplitude squeezing spectra for the light from a variety of conventionally pumped three- and four-level lasers. Hence we extend a recent prediction that a certain three-level laser can generate nonclassical light without the need for rigged pumping.
DOI
10.1364/ol.16.001113

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