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Recovery of continuous wave squeezing at low frequencies

W P Bowen, R Schnabel, N Treps, H-A Bachor and P K Lam

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We propose and demonstrate a system that produces squeezed vacuum using a pair of optical parametric amplifiers (OPAs). This scheme allows the production of phase sidebands on the squeezed vacuum which facilitate phase locking in downstream applications. We observe strong, stably locked, continuous wave vacuum squeezing at frequencies as low as 220 kHz. We propose an alternative resonator configuration to overcome low frequency squeezing degradation caused by the OPAs.


PACS

42.50.Dv Quantum state engineering and measurements

42.79.Hp Optical processors, correlators, and modulators

07.60.Ly Interferometers

42.65.Lm Parametric down conversion and production of entangled photons

42.65.Yj Optical parametric oscillators and amplifiers

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Instrumentation and measurement

Optics, quantum optics and lasers

Dates

Issue 6 (December 2002)

Received 29 July 2002

Published 1 November 2002



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