Abstract

Following the experimental realization of squeezed-light, attention is now being drawn to the interaction of squeezed light with matter. In view of the potential applications, nonlinear interactions with squeezed light are of special interest. We investigate the quantum statistical properties of the output fields in degenerate four-wave mixing (DFWM) with squeezed light as the input probe field (object wave). In the standard backward DFWM geometry, the two pump beams are considered strong and classical whereas the object and image modes are quantitized. Using such a model with a coherent input probe, Yen and Shapiro¹ showed that a squeezed state can be generated by combination of the phase-conjugate and transmitted-probe fields.

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