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Frontiers in Optics

Spatial Squeezing in Bright Twin Light Beams using a CCD Camera

Ashok Kumar, Hayden Nunley, Alberto M. Marino

Published Jan 1, 2016• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report the direct measurement of 2 dB of spatial squeezing with an EMCCD camera. We use bright twin beams of light generated through four-wave mixing in a double-lambda configuration in Rb atomic vapor.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2016.jth2a.2

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