Vacuum squeezing in atomic media via self-rotation Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • When linearly polarized light propagates through a medium in which elliptically polarized light would undergo self-rotation, squeezed vacuum can appear in the orthogonal polarization. A simple relationship between self-rotation and the degree of vacuum squeezing is developed. Taking into account absorption, we find the optimum conditions for squeezing in any medium that can produce self-rotation. We then find analytic expressions for the amount of vacuum squeezing produced by an atomic vapor when light is near-resonant with a transition between various low-angular-momentum states. Finally, we consider a gas of multilevel Rb atoms, and analyze squeezing for light tuned near the D lines under realistic conditions. 5555 2002 The American Physical Society.

published proceedings

  • PHYSICAL REVIEW A

author list (cited authors)

  • Matsko, A. B., Novikova, I., Welch, G. R., Budker, D., Kimball, D. F., & Rochester, S. M.

citation count

  • 73

complete list of authors

  • Matsko, AB||Novikova, I||Welch, GR||Budker, D||Kimball, DF||Rochester, SM

publication date

  • October 2002