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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Picosecond squeezing at 844 nm with a periodically poled LiTaO3 waveguide

Zicong Xu, Kenichi Oguchi, Yuki Sano, Yoshitaka Taguchi, Kazuhiro Katoh, Yasuyuki Ozeki

Published Jan 1, 2021• 1 citation
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Abstract

Aiming at quantum enhancement in < 1 µm, we demonstrate pulsed squeezing with a periodically poled stoichiometric LiTaO3 waveguide. We confirm anti-squeezing of > 7 dB and vacuum squeezing of −1.19 dB at 844 nm.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2021.jw1a.44

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