Photon number squeezing of ultrabroadband laser pulses generated by microstructure fibers.
To the best of our knowledge, we demonstrate for the first time the generation of photon number squeezing by spectral filtering for ultrabroadband light generated by microstructure fibers at 800 nm. A maximum squeezing of 4.6 dB is observed, corresponding to 10.3 dB after correcting for detection losses. We numerically analyzed the quantum dynamics of ultrashort laser pulse propagation through optical fibers by solving a nonlinear quantum Schrödinger equation that included Raman scattering, especially for the quantum correlation of photon number fluctuation among frequency modes in broadband pulses.
Hirosawa
Kenichi
K
Department of Electronics and Electrical Engineering, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama, 223-8522, Japan.
Furumochi
Hiroto
H
Tada
Atsushi
A
Kannari
Fumihiko
F
Takeoka
Masahiro
M
Sasaki
Masahide
M