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Canadian Journal of Physics

Optical propagation in a nonhomogeneous medium and squeezed states

Jing‐Bo Xu, Xiao-Chun Gao

Published Jan 1, 1994• 1 citation
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Abstract

In this paper, using the concept of the basic invariant, we study optical propagation in a nonhomogeneous medium and obtain the squeezed states for the system. These should be of importance for the discussion of the propagation of waves with finite width.
DOI
10.1139/p94-005

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