Title :
A quantum laser pointer
Author :
Treps, Nicolas ; Grosse, Nicolai ; Bowen, Warwick ; Fabre, Claude ; Bachor, Hans A. ; Lam, Koy
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Phys., Australian Nat. Univ., Canberra, ACT, Australia
Abstract :
A ´quantum laser pointer´ in two dimensions is realized, with two squeezed light and one intense coherent beams. These beams is in well defined mutually orthogonal transverse modes, which is termed as flipped modes. The challenges in generating such light states are three fold: (1) the production of two stable sources of squeezed light; (2) the mode shaping of these light beams into their respective transverse modes, and (3) the near-lossless mixing of all these modes to form a single spatial light beam. To achieve these goals, optical parametric amplifiers, special phase plates and a mode discriminating optical resonator are used.
Keywords :
laser beams; laser modes; light coherence; optical parametric amplifiers; optical resonators; optical squeezing; flipped modes; intense coherent beams; light beam mode shaping; mode discriminating optical resonator; mutually orthogonal transverse modes; optical parametric amplifiers; phase plates; quantum laser pointer; spatial light beam; squeezed light; Laser beams; Laser modes; Nonlinear optics; Optical amplifiers; Optical mixing; Optical resonators; Production; Quantum well lasers; Semiconductor optical amplifiers; Stimulated emission;
Conference_Titel :
Quantum Electronics Conference, 2003. EQEC '03. European
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7733-8
DOI :
10.1109/EQEC.2003.1314202
