Polarization Squeezing with Cold Atoms
Vincent Josse, Aurélien Dantan, L. Vernac +3 more
We study the interaction of a nearly resonant linearly polarized laser beam with a cloud of cold cesium atoms in a high finesse optical cavity. We show theoretically and experimentally that the cross-Kerr effect due to the saturation of the optical transition produces quadrature squeezing on both the mean field and the orthogonally polarized vacuum mode. An interpretation of this vacuum squeezing as polarization squeezing is given and a method for measuring quantum Stokes parameters for weak beams via a local oscillator is developed.
arXiv:quant-ph/0304022•Physical Review Letters•Sep 2, 2003•100 citations