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Optics Letters

χ^(3) squeezed vacuum generation without a Sagnac interferometer

Luc Boivin, H. A. Haus

Published Jan 15, 1996• 16 citations
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Abstract

We show that an intense linearly polarized pulse propagating in a nonbirefringent fiber squeezes the perpendicularly polarized vacuum f luctuations through cross-phase modulation. Unlike the generation of squeezed vacuum through self-phase modulation, the mechanism discussed here does not require the use of a nonlinear Sagnac interferometer to separate the pump from the squeezed vacuum.

DOI
10.1364/ol.21.000146

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