Abstract
The aim of this work is to study how losses modify quantum effects in a system governed by the spatial nonlinear Schrödinger equation. Quantum effects in space, such as quantum noise, squeezing, and bunching, have been studied in a lossless case.1 We will consider the propagation of a field through a planar nonlinear waveguide,2,3 where confinement is provided in one transverse dimension (y direction) by a linear refractive index and in the orthogonal dimension (x direction) by the intensity dependence of the refractive index.1,4 Attenuation is given to the spatial distribution in the x-z plane. In this work we want to extend the dissipation approach described in Ref. 5 to a system governed by the spatiai-nonlinear Sclirödinger equation (SNLS). We use a quantum-field description1 in which the spatial variable of propagation z plays the role of the time in the standard quantum theory, and we apply it to the case of a strong plane wave that can be described as a classical field propagating through a nonlinear waveguide in the z direction.4 By using both paraxial and slowly-varying-envelope approximations, the propagation of the field in a planar waveguide is described by the NLS.1
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