QUANTUM SOLITONS - EXPERIMENTAL PROGRESS AND PERSPECTIVES

Nonlinear and quantum optical experiments based on the Kerr effect can take advantage of the stable, chirp-free spatio-temporal power confin ement provided by ultrashort optical solitons in glass fibres. Soliton -collision quantum nondemolition measurements are discussed with speci al attention to pulse preparation, classical and quantum noise reducti on. The state of the art of quadrature squeezing and recent experiment al progress with soliton photon-number noise reduction are reviewed.