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View SchemaCan optical squeezing be generated via polarization self-rotation in a thermal vapour cell?
| Authors | M. T. L. Hsu, A. Dantan, J. Cviklinski, A. Bramati, G. Hetet, A. Peng, C. C. Harb, H. -A. Bachor, M. T. Johnsson, J. J. Hope, M. Pinard, P. K. Lam |
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| ArXiv ID | quant-ph/0510165 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0510165 |
| DOI | 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.023806 |
| Journal | Physical Review A 73 023806 (2006) |
Abstract
The traversal of an elliptically polarized optical field through a thermal vapour cell can give rise to a rotation of its polarization axis. This process, known as polarization self-rotation (PSR), has been suggested as a mechanism for producing squeezed light at atomic transition wavelengths. In this paper, we show results of the characterization of PSR in isotopically enhanced Rubidium-87 cells, performed in two independent laboratories. We observed that, contrary to earlier work, the presence of atomic noise in the thermal vapour overwhelms the observation of squeezing. We present a theory that contains atomic noise terms and show that a null result in squeezing is consistent with this theory.
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"title": "Can optical squeezing be generated via polarization self-rotation in a thermal vapour cell?",
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