Frontiers in Optics

Bright Squeezed Vacuum: Towards Lossless Mode Selection

Angela M. Pérez, T. Sh. Iskhakov, Maria V. Chekhova, Gerd Leuchs

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations

Abstract

We test narrowband filtering of bright squeezed vacuum by observation of its single-mode statistics while the state remains macroscopic. Furthermore we attempt lossless single-mode selection and discuss the validity of the Schmidt mode decomposition approach.

DOI: 10.1364/ls.2012.ltu2j.3

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