Frontiers in Optics

Bi-chromatic Intensity Squeezing at Telecom Wavelength using Four-Wave Mixing in Rb Vapor

Ziqi Niu, Jianming Wen, Chuanwei Zhang, Shengwang Du, Irina V. Novikova

Published Jan 1, 2024• 0 citations

Abstract

We optimized four-wave mixing gain in a double-ladder system in Rb vapor, and observed more than 2dB of two-mode intensity squeezing between amplified 795nm probe and generated 1324nm conjugate optical fields.

DOI: 10.1364/fio.2024.jw5a.53

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