All-fibre source of amplitude-squeezed light pulses
Abstract
An all-fibre source of amplitude squeezed solitons utilizing the self-phase modulation in an asymmetric Sagnac interferometer is experimentally demonstrated. The asymmetry of the interferometer is passively controlled by an integrated fibre coupler, allowing for the optimisation of the noise reduction. We have carefully studied the dependence of the amplitude noise on the asymmetry and the power launched into the Sagnac interferometer. Qualitatively, we find good agreement between the experimental results, a semi-classical theory and earlier numerical calculations [Schmitt etl.al., PRL Vol. 81, p.2446, (1998)]. The stability and flexibility of this all-fibre source makes it particularly well suited to applications in quantum information science.
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@article{arxiv.quant-ph/0408170,
title = {All-fibre source of amplitude-squeezed light pulses},
author = {Markus Meissner and Christoph Marquardt and Joel Heersink and Tobias Gaber and André Wietfeld and Gerd Leuchs and Ulrik L. Andersen},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:quant-ph/0408170},
year = {2009}
}