Field squeeze operators in optical cavities with atomic ensembles

Phys Rev Lett. 2006 Jan 13;96(1):010502. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.010502. Epub 2006 Jan 3.

Abstract

We propose a method of generating unitarily single and two-mode field squeezing in an optical cavity with an atomic cloud. Through a suitable laser system, we are able to engineer a squeeze field operator decoupled from the atomic degrees of freedom, yielding a large squeeze parameter that is scaled up by the number of atoms, and realizing degenerate and nondegenerate parametric amplification. By means of the input-output theory we show that ideal squeezed states and perfect squeezing could be approached at the output. The scheme is robust to decoherence processes.