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Photon number squeezing in the normal dispersion regime

Dmitriy Krylov, K. Bergman

Published Jan 20, 2003• 0 citations

Abstract

Summary form only given. We have experimentally demonstrated a practical possibility of producing amplitude-squeezed light in a non-soliton regime and measured 1.7 +/- 0.1 dB using a highly asymmetric Sagnac interferometer geometry.

DOI: 10.1109/qels.1999.807441

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