QUANTUM-NOISE IN OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION - A MEANS TO ACHIEVE NOISELESS OPTICAL FUNCTIONS

Authors
LEVENSON JA BENCHEIKH K LOVERING DJ VIDAKOVIC P SIMONNEAU C
Citation
Ja. Levenson et al., QUANTUM-NOISE IN OPTICAL PARAMETRIC AMPLIFICATION - A MEANS TO ACHIEVE NOISELESS OPTICAL FUNCTIONS, Quantum and semiclassical optics, 9(2), 1997, pp. 221-237
Citations number
35
Categorie Soggetti
Optics,"Physics, Applied
Journal title
Quantum and semiclassical optics → ACNP
ISSN journal
13555111
Volume
9
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
221 - 237
Database
ISI
SICI code
1355-5111(1997)9:2<221:QIOPA->2.0.ZU;2-#
Abstract
We describe some limitations of the noise performance of classical opt ical devices which are directly related to the Poissonian statistics a ssociated with ordinary laser beams. We show that quantum optics, via optical parametric amplification, allows us to circumvent these limita tions in order to realize certain noiseless optical functions such as amplification, duplication, detection and distribution of optical sign als.