Generating and detecting short-duration pulses of squeezed light
Bernard Yurke, Philippe Grangier, Richard E. Slusher +1 more
Mode-locked lasers provide a train of high-intensity light pulses that can be used to pump nonlinear media in order to produce squeezed light. The squeezed light produced would consist of a train of short-duration pulses. It is shown here that a homodyne detector using a pulsed local oscillator can be used to observe the squeezing even when the response time of the photodetector is much longer than the local oscillator or squeezed light pulse width.
Physical Review A•Apr 1, 1987•76 citations