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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Generation of a Comb of Vacuum Squeezing over 2.4 GHz for Multiplexed Communication

M. Heurs, James Webb, Timothy C. Ralph, Elanor H. Huntington

Published Jan 1, 2010• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate the measurement of a “squeezing comb”, the time-resolved homodyne detection of the first twelve vacuum squeezing sidebands of an optical parametric oscillator, and propose its use as a multiplexed quantum communications channel.
DOI
10.1364/qels.2010.qfa2

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