Title :
Amplification of a squeezed-quadrature using a cascaded traveling-wave phase-sensitive optical parametric amplifier
Author :
Alon, Gideon ; Lim, Oo-Kaw ; Bhagwat, Amar ; Chen, Chao-Hsiang ; Vasilyev, Michael ; Kumar, Prem
Author_Institution :
EECS Dept., Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL, USA
fDate :
Aug. 28 2011-Sept. 1 2011
Abstract :
We demonstrate a two-stage system of cascaded traveling-wave phase-sensitive optical parametric amplifiers, achieving 3.6dB squeezed-quadrature amplification (0.9dB deamplification) on top of 1.3 dB squeezing provided by the first stage.
Keywords :
optical parametric amplifiers; optical squeezing; squeezed quadrature amplification; traveling wave phase sensitive optical parametric amplifier; Laser beams; Laser radar; Noise; Optical receivers; Optical sensors; Quantum cascade lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference & Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO/IQEC/PACIFIC RIM), 2011
Conference_Location :
Sydney, NSW
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-1939-4
DOI :
10.1109/IQEC-CLEO.2011.6193992
