Squeezed States

Bernard Yurke

doi:10.1117/12.967177

1 January 1987 Squeezed States

Bernard Yurke

Proceedings Volume 0813, Optics and the Information Age; (1987) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.967177
Event: 14th Congress of the International Commission for Optics, 1987, Quebec, Canada

Abstract

Recently a number of laboratories have demonstrated the generation of squeezed light, a new kind of light which in some of its aspects exhibits less quantum noise then coherent light. Here a description will be given of how such light is generated and detected. With the successful generation and detection of squeezed light by a number of laboratories1-5 a new degree of control over the quantum statistics of light has been achieved. Light can now be generated which, in some of its aspects, has less quantum noise than coherent light. Such light may find applications in optical communications and in sensitive and precision measurement. Here a description will be given of how squeezed light is generated and detected.6-8 The discussion will be restricted to what is called "quadrature squeezing". The electric field operator for a single mode of the electromagnetic field can be written in the form

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Bernard Yurke "Squeezed States", Proc. SPIE 0813, Optics and the Information Age, (1 January 1987); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.967177

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