Theoretical analysis of squeezed-light generation by second-harmonic generation

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 690-699

  Suhara, Toshiaki ^{a,b,d,e,f,g,h}   Fujimura, Masatoshi ^a,b,h,i   Kintaka, Kenji ^b   Nishihara, Hiroshi ^a,b   Kürz, Peter ^c   Mukai, Takaaki ^a,c  

^a IEEE

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NTT Basic Research Laboratories   (Japan)

^d VTT TECHNICAL RESEARCH CENTRE OF FINLAND   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^f TOHOKU UNIVERSITY

^g Laser Society of   (Japan)

^h JAPAN SOCIETY OF APPLIED PHYSICS   (Japan)

ⁱ STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; LIGHT; LIGHT PROPAGATION; LINEARIZATION; LOSSES; MATRIX ALGEBRA; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; OPTICAL WAVEGUIDES; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; SECOND HARMONIC GENERATION;

AMPLITUDE FLUCTUATIONS; COVARIANCE MATRIX; INPUT OUTPUT EQUATIONS; PROPAGATION LOSSES; SQUEEZED LIGHT GENERATION;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 0030125953     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/3.488844     Document Type: Article

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