Vacuum Squeezing in Atomic Media via Self-Rotation
Abstract
When linearly polarized light propagates through a medium in which elliptically polarized light would undergo self-rotation, squeezed vacuum can appear in the orthogonal polarization. A simple relationship between self-rotation and the degree of vacuum squeezing is developed. Taking into account absorption, we find the optimum conditions for squeezing in any medium that can produce self-rotation. We then find analytic expressions for the amount of vacuum squeezing produced by an atomic vapor when light is near-resonant with a transition between various low-angular-momentum states. Finally, we consider a gas of multi-level Rb atoms, and analyze squeezing for light tuned near the D-lines under realistic conditions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0112072,
title = {Vacuum Squeezing in Atomic Media via Self-Rotation},
author = {A. B. Matsko and I. Novikova and G. R. Welch and D. Budker and D. F. Kimball and S. M. Rochester},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0112072},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, 6 figures; Submitted to PRA