Journal of Optoelectronics·laser
Obtaining and detecting of optical soliton amplitde squeezing state
Bojun Yang
Abstract
Soliton amplitude squeezing state is obtained by using an asymmetric Sagnac interferometer,and detected by using a balanced homodyne detecting system.A promoted photo detector circuit is introdueed which is fit for quantum state detecting.The circuit using ETX-500 photodiode has a bandwidth of 10 MHz and the saturation power is about 19mW.A maximum photocurrent noise reduction of 1.1 dB below shot noise is achieved.Taking the detecting efficiency into account,the squeezing will be about 1.5 dB.