Physical Review A

Phase-noise squeezing in electromagnetically induced transparency

Michael Fleischhauer, Ulrich W. Rathe, Marlan O. Scully

Published Nov 1, 1992• 26 citations

Abstract

Light transmitted through a resonant atomic system with electromagnetically induced transparency displays reduced phase-noise fluctuations. For the case of the medium being inside a cavity, a 50% squeezing of the out-of-phase component is possible outside the cavity.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.46.5856

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