Abstract

A phase-sensitive interferometer system is proposed. Quantum noise in this system is reduced by using nonclassical light that is produced by a simple squeezer with Kerr media. The noise in a balanced detector can be less than the noise attained by using an ordinary squeezed vacuum.

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Squeezing performance of a nonlinear symmetric Mach–Zehnder interferometer using forward degenerate four-wave mixing

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