《Squeezed state of light 》.pdf

Home Search Collections Journals About Contact us My IOPscience Squeezed state of light This article has been downloaded from IOPscience. Please scroll down to see the full text article. 1989 Quantum Opt. 1 153 (/0954-8998/1/2/006) View the table of contents for this issue, or go to the journal homepage for more Download details: IP Address: 65 The article was downloaded on 30/06/2012 at 13:17 Please note that terms and conditions apply. Quantum Opt. l(1989)152-191. Printed in the UK TUTORIAL Squeezed statesof light M C TeichT and B E A SalehS tColumbia University, New York, New York 10027,USA $University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA Received 17August 1989, in final form 18September 1989 Abstract. In this tutorial article we provide a discussion of squeezed states of light from an elementary point of view. An outline of the topics considered is provided in the contents list below. Following the presentation of topics 1-3, which are of a general nature, we discuss two kinds of nonclassical light: quadrature-squeezed light (topics 4-6) and photon- number-squeezed light (topics 7-9). In the last part of the article we provide a listing of early nonclassical light experiments and consider a number of applications (and potential applications) of squeezedlight. Finally, we provide a survey of the available general literature. Contents 1. Review of uncertainties in light 2. Examples of states of light 3. Definitions of squeezed-state light 4. Examples of quadrature-squeezed light 5. Detection of quadrature-squeezed light 6 . Generation o