Generation of a squeezed vacuum resonant on a rubidium D1 line with periodically poled KTiOPO4

Takahito Tanimura; Daisuke Akamatsu; Yoshihiko Yokoi; Akira Furusawa; Mikio Kozuma

doi:10.1364/ol.31.002344

Generation of a squeezed vacuum resonant on a rubidium D1 line with periodically poled KTiOPO4

Opt Lett. 2006 Aug 1;31(15):2344-6. doi: 10.1364/ol.31.002344.

Authors

Takahito Tanimura¹, Daisuke Akamatsu, Yoshihiko Yokoi, Akira Furusawa, Mikio Kozuma

Affiliation

¹ Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 O-okayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8550, Japan. kozuma@ap.titech.ac.jp

PMID: 16832480
DOI: 10.1364/ol.31.002344

Abstract

We report the generation of a continuous-wave squeezed vacuum resonant on the Rb D1 line (795 nm) using periodically poled KTiOPO4 (PPKTP) crystals. With a frequency doubler and an optical parametric oscillator based on PPKTP crystals, we observed a squeezing level of -2.75+/-0.14 dB and an antisqueezing level of +7.00+/-0.13 dB. This system could be utilized for demonstrating storage and retrieval of the squeezed vacuum, which is important for the ultraprecise measurement of atomic spins as well as quantum information processing.