Abstract

Electrically pumped microcavity lasers have been predicted to generate photon-number squeezed light by the same basic mechanism that accounts for squeezed light emission from standard semiconductor lasers.¹ Because of the unique properties of microcavity devices, such as enhanced spontaneous emission into the lasing mode (potentially enhanced by cavity quantum electrodynamic effects) and single longitudinal mode oscillation, they are expected to exhibit novel squeezing behavior. Furthermore, squeezing from a high finesse laser cavity typical of microcavity devices provides confirmation of the high impedance pump noise suppression model¹ in the good cavity limit, for which it was originally formulated. We report the first observation of squeezed light generated in a microcavity laser.

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