Chinese Physics

Squeezing properties of a trapped ion in the running-wave laser beyond the Lamb–Dicke limit

Chang-Ning Pan, Mao-Fa Fang, Zheng Xiao-Juan, Yao-Hua Hu

Published Jun 1, 2007• 1 citation

Abstract

Beyond the Lamb–Dicke limit, this paper investigates the squeezing properties of the trapped ion in the travelling-wave laser. It shows that the squeezing properties of the trapped ion in the travelling-wave laser are strongly affected by the sideband number k, the Lamb–Dicke parameter η and the initial average phonon number.

DOI: 10.1088/1009-1963/16/6/009

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