Krivitsky LA, Andersen UL, Dong R, Huck A, Wittmann C, Leuchs G. Electronic noise-free measurements of squeezed light.
OPTICS LETTERS 2008;
33:2395-2397. [PMID:
18923634 DOI:
10.1364/ol.33.002395]
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Abstract
We study the implementation of a correlation measurement technique for the characterization of squeezed light. We show that the sign of the covariance coefficient revealed from the time-resolved correlation data allow us to distinguish among squeezed, coherent, and thermal states. In contrast to the traditional method of characterizing squeezed light, involving measurement of the variation of the difference photocurrent, the correlation measurement method allows one to eliminate the contribution of the electronic noise, which becomes a crucial issue in experiments with dim sources of squeezed light.
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