Observation of quadrature squeezing in a χ(2) nonlinear waveguide using a temporally shaped local oscillator pulse

Optics Express

Volumn 16, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 10650-10657

  Eto, Yujiro ^a   Tajima, Takashi ^a   Zhang, Yun ^a   Hirano, Takuya ^a  

^a GAKUSHUIN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARAMETRIC OSCILLATORS; WAVEGUIDES;

AMPLIFICATION GAIN; DEAMPLIFICATION; LOCAL OSCILLATORS; NONLINEAR WAVEGUIDES; OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION; PARAMETRIC GAIN; PERIODICALLY POLED; QUADRATURE SQUEEZING;

OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFIERS;

EID: 47249137815     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.16.010650     Document Type: Article

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