Abstract
The concept of squeezing, which generally implies that one quadrature component of an optical field has measured fluctuations below the vacuum limit, is generalized to higher moments of even order. Higher-order squeezing is encountered in many of the nonlinear processes that generate second-order squeezing. It is shown that the field produced in degenerate parametric downconversion is squeezed to all even orders and is intrinsically squeezed to orders 2,6,10…. Higher-order squeezing also shows up in second harmonic generation and in resonance fluorescence from an atom. However, in those cases there is no intrinsic squeezing beyond the second order, although a strong second-order squeezing effect is manifest in the higher-order moments of the field.
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