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Annual Meeting Optical Society of America

Theory of squeezing in low Q cavity

Alistair S. Lane, M. D. Reid, Daniel F. Walls

Published Jan 1, 1986• 0 citations
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Abstract

A theory calculating the squeezing generated via intracavity four-wave mixing in a two-level atomic medium is presented. Previous theories have assumed a high Q cavity such that the atomic linewidth γ⊥ is much greater than the cavity linewidth κ and one can adiabatically eliminate atomic variables. We do not make this assumption.
DOI
10.1364/oam.1986.tuj9

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