Title :
Homodyne locking of a squeezer
Author :
Heurs, M. ; Petersen, I.R. ; James, M.R. ; Huntington, E.H.
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Eng. & Inf. Technol., Univ. of New South Wales, Canberra, ACT, Australia
Abstract :
Homodyne locking is a new approach to frequency-locking an OPO-based squeezed-vacuum source and its driving laser. It is cheap, easy to implement, subsequent measurements are automatically phase-locked, and it is uniquely a sub-QNL frequency discriminator.
Keywords :
laser mode locking; optical parametric oscillators; optical squeezing; OPO-based squeezed-vacuum source; driving laser; frequency-locking; homodyne locking; squeezer; Elementary particle vacuum; Frequency measurement; Information technology; Noise measurement; Optical interferometry; Optical noise; Phase detection; Phase frequency detector; Phase measurement; Pump lasers;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) and Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (QELS), 2010 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-55752-890-2