Squeezed-light generation by twin-beam control with an optical cavity
R. Paschotta, Jerome C. Mertz
We demonstrate that a single-ended optical cavity can be used to generate squeezed light from a pair of intensity-correlated light beams. One beam serves as an input to the cavity, while the measured intensity in the other beam serves to control various cavity parameters such as input coupling, losses, or detuning. Depending on the mode of operation, the resulting output beam from the cavity can be squeezed in amplitude or in phase. We derive the noise spectrum for the case of optimal amplitude squeezing, provided that there are no initial correlations between amplitude and phase in the input beams. Practical examples are given in which an optical parametric oscillator serves as the twin-beam source. As a general consequence of twin-beam control, we also derive a Heisenberg-like inequality governing the amplitude and phase spectra of intensity-correlated beams.
Physical Review A•Apr 1, 1994•0 citations