Two schemes for characterization and detection of the squeezed light: Dynamical Casimir effect and nonlinear materials

Abstract

The detection and characterization of a non-classical-squeezed state of light, by using two different schemes, will be presented . In the first one, in an one-dimensional cavity with moving mirror (non-stationary Casimir effect) in the principal mode, we study the photon creation rate for two modes (squeezed and coherent state) of driving field. Since the cavity with moving mirror (similar to an optomechanical system) can be considered analogue to a Kerr-like medium, so that in the second scheme, the probability amplitude for multi-photons absorption in a nonlinear (Kerr) medium will be quantum mechanically calculated. It is shown that because of presence of nonlinear effects, the responses of these two systems to the squeezed versus coherent state are considerably distinguishable. The drastic difference between the results of these two states of light can be viewed as a proposal for detecting of non-classical states.