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Frontiers in Optics

A Single-Pass Quantum Source of Multimode Squeezed States of Light

Luca La Volpe, Syamsundar De, Tiphaine Kouadou, Valentina Parigi, Claude Fabre, Nicolas Treps

Published Jan 1, 2018• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present a parametric down-conversion based source generating broadband squeezed light in multiple spectral modes. The source will be used to create large-scale cluster states, and to perform space-time positioning measurements beyond classical limit.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2018.jtu3a.56

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