Analytic solution to the nonlinear generation of squeezed states in a thermal bath
We model squeezed state generation in a lossy optical cavity in the presence of a thermal bath using the Lindblad master equation. We show that in the undepleted-pump approximation, the exact solution is a squeezed thermal state, where thermal photons arise both from loss and from the thermal bath. We derive a closed-form solution for the evolution of the quadrature uncertainty arising from pulsed degenerate spontaneous parametric down conversion in the cavity under the parametric oscillation threshold. We apply this solution under different pump conditions and show in detail how the thermal environment reduces quadrature squeezing as well as the second-order coherence function.
Authors
- Marc M. Dignam (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2840-3253)
- Paul R. B. Hughes (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0005-0510-7928)
Institutions
- Queen's University (CA)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Physical review. A/Physical review, A
- Published
- 2024-12-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1103/physreva.110.063718
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Mechanical and Optical Resonators
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.34
Funders
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada