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Frontiers in Optics

Quantum statistics of heterodyne detection of squeezed light

Luis F. Morales Bultron, Reeta Vyas, Surendra Singh

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

Quantum statistics of heterodyne detection of squeezed light from a degenerate parametric oscillator are discussed for arbitrary field strengths and frequencies of the local oscillator.
DOI
10.1364/fio.2022.jtu5a.37

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