Abstract

Recently, sub-Poissonian light was generated by frequency filtering of solitons in an optical fiber.^1,2 Numerical and analytical models of these experiments were developed, based on generalized P-representation³ and back-propagation methods.⁴ One critical issue that has not been addressed in these models is the problem of an optimum frequency-or time-filter that maximizes the observable quantum-noise reduction at the output of the optical fiber.

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