Multi-spatial-mode single-beam quadrature squeezed states of light from four-wave mixing in hot rubidium vapor

Optics Express

Volumn 19, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 21358-21369

  Corzo, Neil ^a,b   Marino, Alberto M ^a   Jones, Kevin M ^c   Lett, Paul D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^c WILLIAMS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUANTUM OPTICS; RUBIDIUM; VAPORS;

ATOMIC TRANSITION; ATOMIC VAPOR; DEAMPLIFICATION; DETUNINGS; NOISE PROPERTIES; PHASE-SENSITIVE; QUADRATURE SQUEEZING; RB VAPORS; RUBIDIUM VAPOR; SINGLE-BEAM; SPATIAL MODES; SQUEEZED LIGHT; SQUEEZED STATE; TRANSVERSE MODE;

FOUR WAVE MIXING;

EID: 80054952591     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10944087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1364/OE.19.021358     Document Type: Article

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