In a strongly pumped non-degenerate traveling-wave OPA, we produce two-color squeezed vacuum with up to millions of photons per pulse. Our approach to registering this macroscopic quantum state is direct detection of a large number of transverse and longitudinal modes, which is achieved by making the detection time and area much larger than the coherence time and area, respectively. Using this approach, we obtain a record value of twin-beam squeezing for direct detection of bright squeezed vacuum. This makes direct detection of macroscopic squeezed vacuum a practical tool for quantum information applications.
@article{arxiv.0910.4831,
title = {Two-Color Bright Squeezed Vacuum},
author = {Ivan N. Agafonov and Maria V. Chekhova and Gerd Leuchs},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0910.4831},
year = {2012}
}