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Quantum fluctuations and correlations of spatial scalar or multimode vector solitons in Kerr media

Eric Lantz, Thibaut Sylvestre, Herve Maillote, Nicolas Treps, Claude Fabre

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0311088

Abstract

We apply the Green's function method to determine the global degree of squeezing and the transverse spatial distribution of quantum fluctuations of solitons in Kerr media. We show that both scalar bright solitons and multimode vector solitons experience strong squeezing on the optimal quadrature. For vector solitons, this squeezing is shown to result from an almost perfect anti-correlation between the fluctuations on the two incoherently-coupled circular polarisations.

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