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To achieve high degree of quantum noise squeezing, an optical cavity is often employed to enhance the interaction time between light and matter. Here, we propose to utilize the effect of coherent population trapping (CPT) to directly…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 You-Lin Chuang , Ray-Kuang Lee , Ite A. Yu

We discuss the concept of characteristic squeezing modes applied to a travelling-wave optical parametric amplifier pumped by an ultrashort pulse. The characteristic modes undergo decoupled single-mode squeezing transformations, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. I. Lvovsky , W. Wasilewski , K. Banaszek

A light beam is said to be position squeezed if its position can be determined to an accuracy beyond the standard quantum limit. We identify the position and momentum observables for bright optical beams and show that position and momentum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Magnus T. L. Hsu , Warwick P. Bowen , Nicolas Treps , Ping Koy Lam

Using continuous wave superposition of spatial modes, we demonstrate experimentally displacement measurement of a light beam below the standard quantum limit. Multimode squeezed light is obtained by mixing a vacuum squeezed beam and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Treps , U. Andersen , B. Buchler , P. K. Lam , A. Maitre , H. -A. Bachor , C. Fabre

Applying a multiphoton-subtraction technique to two-color macroscopic squeezed vacuum state of light generated via high-gain parametric down conversion we conditionally prepare a new state of light: bright multi-mode low-noise twin beams.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-05-04 Timur Sh. Iskhakov , Vladyslav C. Usenko , Radim Filip , Maria V. Chekhova , Gerd Leuchs

Terahertz (THz)-bandwidth continuous-wave (CW) squeezed light is essential for integrating quantum processors with time-domain multiplexing (TDM) by using optical delay line interferometers. Here, we utilize a single-pass optical parametric…

We observe the polarization squeezing in the mixture of a two mode squeezed vacuum and a simple coherent light through a linear polarization beam splitter. Squeezed vacuum not being squeezed in polarization, generates polarization squeezed…

Optics · Physics 2016-10-21 Namrata Shukla , Ranjana Prakash

Two-mode squeezed states as paradigmatic entangled resources have broad applications in quantum information processing. Here, we study the generation of stable optical-microwave squeezing in structured environments within a hybrid…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-28 Chen Wang , Man Shen , Shi-fan Qi , Yan-kui Bai

We theoretically investigate the generation of two entangled beams of light in the process of single-pass type-I noncollinear frequency degenerate parametric downconversion with an ultrashort pulsed pump. We find the spatio-temporal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-09 L. La Volpe , S. De , M. I. Kolobov , V. Parigi , C. Fabre , N. Treps , D. B. Horoshko

We demonstrated that by using a pump field with non-zero orbital angular momentum (OAM) in the polarization self-rotation squeezing process it is possible to generate a squeezed vacuum optical field with the matching OAM. We found a similar…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-01-08 Mi Zhang , Joseph Soultanis , Irina Novikova , Eugeniy E. Mikhailov

Bright squeezed vacuum, a promising tool for quantum information, can be generated by high-gain parametric down-conversion. However, its frequency and angular spectra are typically quite broad, which is undesirable for applications…

We propose a method for generation of a single-cycle squeezed light by parametric down-conversion in a chirped quasi-phase-matched nonlinear crystal. We find an exact quantum solution for this process valid for an arbitrary parametric gain,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-09-24 D. B. Horoshko , M. I. Kolobov

We report generation of 10.1\pm0.2-dB squeezed light from a broadband periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) waveguide optical parametric amplifier (OPA). Based on our previous report where a similar PPLN waveguide shows 8.3-dB squeezing…

Optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs) in traveling wave configuration can generate localized spatial quantum correlations between a signal and an idler beam, a useful resource for quantum imaging. This study focuses on the classical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-03-24 Joseph Kelly , Eleanor Fradgley , Lida Zhang , Vincent Boyer

We propose a method of generating unitarily single and two-mode field squeezing in an optical cavity with an atomic cloud. Through a suitable laser system, we are able to engineer a squeeze field operator decoupled from the atomic degrees…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. Guzmán , J. C. Retamal , E. Solano , N. Zagury

We investigate coherent perfect absorption (CPA) in quantum optics, in particular when pairs of squeezed coherent states of light are superposed on an absorbing beam splitter. First, by employing quantum optical input-output relations, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-14 Ali Ü. C. Hardal , Martijn Wubs

Multimode squeezed light is enticing for several applications, from squeezed frequency combs for spectroscopy to signal multiplexing in optical computing. To generate squeezing in multiple frequency modes, optical parametric oscillators…

The heralded optical parametric amplifier (OPA) has emerged as a promising tool for quantum state engineering. However, its potential has been limited to coherent state inputs. Here, we introduce a generalized heralded OPA protocol that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-02 Xiao-Xi Yao , Bo Zhang Yusuf Turek

A synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator (SPOPO) operating at 93 MHz is used to generate squeezed states at 1035 nm. The system features a counter-propagating beam at the same wavelength as the quantum state, which…

We present an analytical quantum theoretic model for non-resonant molecular two-photon absorption (TPA) of broadband, spectrally multi-mode squeezed vacuum, including low-gain (isolated entangled photon pairs or EPP) and high-gain (bright…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-10 Michael G. Raymer , Tiemo Landes