Title :
Experimental demonstration of photon number squeezing with a noisy fiber amplifier source by balanced detection technique
Author :
Sawai, Shota ; Kawauchi, Hikaru ; Hirosawa, Kenichi ; Kannari, Fumihiko
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electron. & Electr. Eng., Keio Univ., Yokohama, Japan
fDate :
June 30 2013-July 4 2013
Abstract :
We demonstrated photon number squeezing at 1.55 μm using a noisy erbium-doped fiber laser, making use of collinear balanced detection technique, where intensity noise at a specific radio-frequency is canceled between two pulses.
Keywords :
erbium; optical fibre amplifiers; optical squeezing; collinear balanced detection technique; noisy erbium-doped fiber laser; noisy fiber amplifier source; photon number squeezing; wavelength 1.55 mum; Laser noise; Light sources; Optical fiber amplifiers; Photonics; Radio frequency;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim (CLEO-PR), 2013 Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
DOI :
10.1109/CLEOPR.2013.6600355
