Title :
Post-selection-based quadrature squeezing using noisy EDFA femtosecond laser pulses
Author :
Ushio, Hidetake ; Ito, Yasuyuki ; Hirosawa, Kenichi ; Kannari, Fumihiko
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Keio Univ., Yokohama, Japan
Abstract :
A novel post-selection scheme is proposed to generate squeezed vacuum pulses using noisy fiber laser pulses at 1550 nm. By selecting only coherent pulses with low excess noise, quadrature squeezing is obtainable with conditional homodyne detection.
Keywords :
erbium; fibre lasers; homodyne detection; laser noise; optical pulse generation; optical signal detection; optical squeezing; JkJk:Er; coherent pulse; conditional homodyne detection; laser noise; noisy EDFA femtosecond laser pulse; post-selection-based quadrature squeezing; squeezed vacuum pulse generation; wavelength 1550 nm; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Fiber lasers; Laser noise; Noise level; Optical noise; Optical pulse generation; Optical pulses; Pulse measurements; Semiconductor device noise; Ultrafast optics; Balanced homodyne detection; EDFA laser; Squeezing;
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
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2009.5292524
