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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Improving Squeezed Vacuum Generation via Spatial Mode Shaping in Hot Rb Vapor

Irina V. Novikova, Mi Zhang, Melissa A. Guidry, Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, R. Nicholas Lanning, Zhihao Xiao, Jonathan P. Dowling

Published Jan 1, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

Achievable squeezed vacuum may be limited by contamination of the output fields with higher-order spatial modes. Squeezing can be improved by multipass interactions with a less optically-dense medium or by spatial tailoring of the input.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2018.jth2a.31

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