A graphical description of optical parametric generation of squeezed states of light

被引:7
作者
Bauchrowitz, Joeran [1 ]
Westphal, Tobias
Schnabel, Roman
机构
[1] Leibniz Univ Hannover, Inst Gravitat Phys, D-30167 Hannover, Germany
关键词
2-PHOTON COHERENT STATES; QUANTUM INFORMATION; COMMUNICATION; INTRACAVITY; CAPACITY;
D O I
10.1119/1.4819195
中图分类号
G40 [教育学];
学科分类号
040101 ; 120403 ;
摘要
The standard process for the production of strongly squeezed states of light is degenerate optical parametric amplification (OPA) below threshold in nonlinear dielectric media such as LiNbO3 or periodically poled potassium titanyl phosphate (KTP). Here, we present a graphical description of squeezed-light generation via OPA, visualizing the interaction between the nonlinear dielectric polarization of the medium and the electromagnetic quantum field. We explicitly focus on the transfer from the field's ground state to a squeezed vacuum state and from a coherent state to a bright squeezed state by the medium's second-order nonlinearity, respectively. Our pictures illustrate the phase-dependent amplification and deamplification of quantum uncertainties and give the phase relations between all propagating electromagnetic fields as well as the internally induced dielectric polarizations. The graphical description can also be used to describe the generation of nonclassical states of light via higher-order effects of the nonlinear dielectric polarization such as four-wave mixing and the optical Kerr effect. (C) 2013 American Association of Physics Teachers.
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页码:767 / 771
页数:5
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