Perfect pulsed inline twin-beam squeezers

Abstract

Perfect inline squeezers are both spectrally pure and have identical input and output temporal modes, allowing one to squeeze an arbitrary input quantum state in the sole input mode on which the device acts, while the quantum states of any other modes are unaffected. We study theoretically how to obtain a perfect pulsed inline squeezer in twin-beam systems by considering three commonly used configurations: unpoled single pass, poled single pass, and poled double pass. By obtaining analytical relations between the input and output temporal modes from the Bloch–Messiah decomposition of the discretized Heisenberg-picture propagator, we find that a double-pass structure produces a perfect pulsed inline squeezer when operated in a frequency degenerate, symmetric group-velocity matched type-II configuration.