Generation of a squeezing vacuum at a telecommunication wavelength with periodically poled LiNbO3
Jinxia Feng, Xiutao Tian, Yongmin Li, Kuanshou Zhang · Applied Physics Letters · 2008
A continuous-wave squeezed vacuum at a telecommunication wavelength was reported. Using an Er-doped fiber amplifier seeded by a single-frequency laser diode as the pump laser source, via a frequency doubler and an optical parametric oscillator based on periodically poled LiNbO3, the squeezed vacuum of 2.4±0.1dB below the shot noise limit at 1560nm was observed (the inferred initial squeezing is about 6.4±0.5dB). This system is compatible with standard telecommunication optical fiber, and will be useful for long-distance quantum communication and distributed quantum computing.