Observation of a comb of optical squeezing over many gigahertz of bandwidth

Optics Express

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 5310-5317

  Senior, R J ^a   Milford, G N ^b   Janousek, J ^a   Dunlop, A E ^b   Wagner, K ^a   Bachor, H A ^a   Ralph, T C ^c   Huntington, E H ^b   Harb, C C ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; LIGHT AMPLIFIERS; PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS; RESONANCE;

BASEBAND; HERMITE-GAUSS MODES; MULTIPLE LONGITUDINAL MODES;

QUANTUM OPTICS;

EID: 34247895733     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.15.005310     Document Type: Article

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