Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Record High Squeezing using χ(2) in AlGaAs Chips

Zhizhong Yan, Haoyu He, Han Liu, Meng Lon Iu, O. Ahmed, Eric Chen, Youichi Akasaka, Ikeuchi, Amr Saher Helmy

Published Jan 1, 2019• 0 citations

Abstract

Record squeezing, with squeezing parameter r ≈ 2.5 is measured in AlGaAs optical parametric amplifiers using an ultrafast pump centered at 775 nm. Polarization dependent squeezing and parametric gain were obtained with sub-photon per pulse amplifier sensitivity at 1550 nm regime.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2019.fw3b.5

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