Squeezing via spontaneous rotational symmetry breaking in a four-wave mixing cavity

IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1404-1414

  Garcia Ferrer, Ferran V ^a   Navarrete Benlloch, Carlos ^a   De Valcárcel, Germán J ^a   Roldán, Eugenio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Four wave mixing (FWM); Nonlinear optics; Quantum fluctuations; Squeezed light

Indexed keywords

CAVITY CONFIGURATION; FIRST-ORDER; FOUR-WAVE MIXING (FWM); KERR CAVITIES; PARAMETER VALUES; QUANTUM FLUCTUATION; ROTATIONAL SYMMETRIES; SIGNAL FIELDS; SIGNAL MODES; SQUEEZED LIGHT; SYMMETRY-BREAKING; TEM MODES;

BIOELECTRIC PHENOMENA; GAUSSIAN BEAMS; LIGHT; OPTICAL MATERIALS; QUANTUM ELECTRONICS; QUANTUM OPTICS;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 72949103703     PISSN: 00189197     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JQE.2009.2028616     Document Type: Conference Paper

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