Abstract

We consider the production of squeezed light by hyper-Raman scattering (HRS) and show that initially coherent pump light acquires some squeezing after passage through the hyper-Raman active medium. The short time calculations in this exactly soluble model lead to much higher values of the pump squeezing parameter than those predicted in two-photon absorption (TPA) where the pump squeezing remains sufficiently small over the whole range of propagation distances.^1,2

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