Post-selection-based quadrature squeezing using noisy EDFA femtosecond laser pulses

Hidetake Ushio, Yasuyuki Ito, Kenichi Hirosawa, Fumihiko Kannari

Published Aug 1, 2009• 0 citations

Abstract

A novel post-selection scheme is proposed to generate squeezed vacuum pulses using noisy fiber laser pulses at 1550 nm. By selecting only coherent pulses with low excess noise, quadrature squeezing is obtainable with conditional homodyne detection.

DOI: 10.1109/cleopr.2009.5292524

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