Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Gain of squeezing via photon subtraction

Mikhail S. Podoshvedov, Sergey A. Podoshvedov, S. P. Kulik

Published Jun 23, 2025• 4 citations

Abstract

We develop a method to generate nonclassical light with a larger quadrature squeezing than one of the single-mode squeezed vacuum (SMSV) states by subtracting 2,4,6 photons from it. In general, the more photons are subtracted, the more gain of the squeezing (more than 3 dB) is observed in the measurement-induced continuous variable (CV) states of definite parity. However, the two-photon subtraction strategy is practically preferred. It can be implemented with higher success probability, wider squeezing gain width ∼5dB, and less quadrature variance. We demonstrate the mitigating effect of a photon-number resolving (PNR) detector with nonunit quantum efficiency on the output characteristics of the measurement-induced CV states, resulting in their slight decrease compared to ideal measurement of photons in the auxiliary mode. Use of a single photon in addition to the SMSV state at beam splitter (BS) input with subsequent registration of an odd number of photons (say, 3 photons) in auxiliary mode allows the implementation of the measurement-induced even CV state, which is several times brighter than the initial state, has lower quadrature noise, and is generated with greater probability.

DOI: 10.1364/josab.558998

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