Squeezed vacuum pulse generation with third-order optical nonlinearity in short glass fibers and QPM-PPLN

Author

Kannari, Fumihiko ; Hirosawa, Kenichi

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Keio Univ., Yokohama, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

30-3 Aug. 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

2

Abstract

Squeezed vacuum up to -1.7 dB is generated with chi⁽³⁾ nonlinearity caused by cascaded chi⁽²⁾ nonlinearity in a quasi-phase-matched (QPM) PPLN crystal placed in a Sagnac interferometer with 1550 nm femtosecond laser pulses.

Keywords

Sagnac interferometers; glass fibres; lithium compounds; magnesium compounds; optical fibres; optical glass; optical harmonic generation; optical parametric oscillators; optical phase matching; optical pulse generation; optical pumping; optical squeezing; LiNbO₃:MgO; Sagnac interferometer; cascaded chi⁽²⁾ nonlinearity; femtosecond laser pulses; femtosecond laser pumping; optical parametric oscillator; periodically-poled lithium niobate; quasiphase-matched crystal; second harmonics generation; short glass fibers; squeezed vacuum pulse generation; third-order optical nonlinearity; wavelength 1550 nm; Glass; Optical fibers; Optical frequency conversion; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse amplifiers; Pulse generation; Pump lasers; Quantum cascade lasers; Sagnac interferometers; QPM; Squeezed state; Ultrafast nonlinear optics;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers & Electro Optics & The Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, 2009. CLEO/PACIFIC RIM '09. Conference on

Conference_Location

Shanghai

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3829-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-3830-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292115

Filename

5292115