QUANTUM CORRELATION BETWEEN LONGITUDINAL-MODE INTENSITIES IN A MULTIMODE SQUEEZED SEMICONDUCTOR-LASER

被引:72
作者
INOUE, S [1 ]
OHZU, H [1 ]
MACHIDA, S [1 ]
YAMAMOTO, Y [1 ]
机构
[1] NIPPON TELEGRAPH & TEL PUBL CORP, MUSASHINO ELECT COMMUN LAB, BASIC RES LABS, MUSASHINO, TOKYO 180, JAPAN
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PHYSICAL REVIEW A | 1992年 / 46卷 / 05期
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10.1103/PhysRevA.46.2757
中图分类号
O43 [光学];
学科分类号
070207 ; 0803 ;
摘要
The intensity-noise properties of a constant-current-driven multimode semiconductor laser were studied theoretically and experimentally. It was shown that the total intensity noise of a pump-noise-suppressed multimode semiconductor laser was reduced to below the standard quantum limit even though the intensity noise of each individual mode had large excess intensity noise. This discovery stems from negative quantum correlations between longitudinal-mode intensities.
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页码:2757 / 2765
页数:9
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