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The Rochester Conferences on Coherence and Quantum Optics and the Quantum Information and Measurement meeting

Observation of On-Chip Optical Squeezing

Avik Dutt, Kevin J. Luke, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Alexander L. Gaeta, P. Nussenzveig, Michal F. Lipson

Published Jan 1, 2013• 2 citations
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Abstract

We report the first demonstration of on-chip optical squeezing in a CMOS compatible integrated SiN ring resonator optical parametric oscillator operating above threshold. We measure 1.7 dB intensity-difference squeezing between bright signal and idler beams.
DOI
10.1364/cqo.2013.m6.67

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