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Phase-sensitive Amplification in Metastable Helium

Chitram Banerjee, Jasleen Lugani, Pascal Neveu, Fabien Bretenaker, Fabienne Goldfarb

Published Jan 1, 2017• 0 citations

Abstract

We demonstrate phase-sensitive amplification based on coherent population oscillations in metastable helium with a maximum gain of more than 6. The measured minimum gain corresponds to its ideal value, proving that we have a perfect squeezer.

DOI: 10.1364/qim.2017.qt6a.65

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