Abstract

A theoretical method is developed to treat wideband pulsed squeezing in a traveling-wave parametric amplifier with group-velocity dispersion. Classical stochastic wave equations that are fully equivalent to operator equations of motion are developed and solved numerically. It is found that squeezing occurs over the entire phase-matching bandwidth, although the degree of squeezing decreases when the pump-pulse duration is shorter than the inverse of this bandwidth.

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