DocumentCode
1978763
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
fYear
2009
fDate
30-3 Aug. 2009
Firstpage
1
Lastpage
2
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;
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.2009.5292524
Filename
5292524
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