The generation of squeezing of the square of the field amplitude (SSFA) in a system of coherent light interacting with the k-photon anharmonic oscillator is shown.
We have defined a new nonclassical effect: amplitude kth-power squeezing. We have analyzed the squeezing properties of the k-photon coherent states as defined by D'Ariano, Rasetti, and Vadacchio [Phys. Rev. D 32, 1034 (1985)]; Katriel et al. [Phys. Rev. D 34, 332 (1986)]; and D'Ariano and Sterpi [Phys. Rev. A 39, 1810 (1989)]. It has been shown that, due to the interaction with the nonlinear nonabsorbing medium modeled as an anharmonic oscillator, these states become amplitude kth power squeezed.
We study amplitude-squared squeezing in interaction of coherent light with a nonlinear Kerr medium modelled as an anharmonic oscillator with interaction Hamiltonian H = ½ λ a +2 a 2, where λ is proportional to χ(3) of the nonlinear medium and a is annihilation operator for the interacting field. We find the squeezing parameter S ( τ, r ) in terms of a dimensionless interaction time τ = λ t and Kerr parameter r , which is product of, τ and the average number of photons and obtain almost complete amplitude-squared squeezing (i.e., S ≈ 0) for very small interaction time and very large intensity of the interacting light. We optimize squeezing parameter S ( τ, r ) by an analytic estimation assuming high intensity of the interacting light and realistic values of Kerr nonlinearity following J.Bajer et al. [Czech. J. Phy. 52, 1313 (2002)] and obtain a scaling law for optimal amplitude-squared squeezing with minimum value S min , at r = r min for a given τ. The validity of the scaling law is checked numerically and analytically in the region of realistic values of Kerr nonlinearity and intensity of the interacting light.