Generation and applications of amplitude-squeezed states of light from semiconductor diode lasers

Optics Express

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 110-117

  Li, Yong Qing ^a   Xiao, Min ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NOISE; ATOMS; DIFFRACTION GRATINGS; DOPPLER EFFECT; FEEDBACK CONTROL; HARMONIC GENERATION; HETERODYNING; LASERS; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHOTOCURRENTS; PHOTONS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DOPPLER VELOCITY; OPTICAL FEEDBACK; SECOND-HARMONIC GENERATION (SHG); SQUEEZED STATES;

SEMICONDUCTOR DIODES;

EID: 0001247122     PISSN: 10944087     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.2.000110     Document Type: Article

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