Abstract

Since the first demonstrations of squeezed light generation 10 years ago, there has been a substantial research effort to study the properties of squeezed light and to find new methods of generation. We have recently demontrated a technique in which quadrature squeezing can be achieved in a semiconductor crystal al room temperature [1]. In the present contribution we report a much simplified technique that uses a linearly polarized pump pulse to generate orthogonally polarized squeezed light. This is a new type of squeezing, which is unique to crystalline materials, and should be particularly useful for the generation of squeezed light in semiconductor waveguides.

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