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Generation of a stable low-frequency squeezed vacuum field with periodically-poled KTiOPO4 at 1064 nm

Keisuke Goda, Eugeniy E. Mikhailov, Osamu Miyakawa, Shailendhar Saraf, Stephen Vass, Alan Weinstein, Nergis Mavalvala

quant-pharXiv:quant-ph/0703001

Abstract

We report on the generation of a stable continuous-wave low-frequency squeezed vacuum field with a squeezing level of 3.80.1 dB at 1064 nm, the wavelength at which laser interferometers for gravitational wave (GW) detection operate, using periodically poled KTiOPO4 (PPKTP) in a sub-threshold optical parametric oscillator. PPKTP has the advantages of higher nonlinearity, smaller intra-crystal and pump-induced seed absorption, user-specified parametric down-conversion temperature, wider temperature tuning range, and lower susceptibility to thermal lensing over alternative nonlinear materials such as MgO doped or periodically poled LiNbO3, and is, therefore, an excellent material for generation of squeezed vacuum fields for application to laser interferometers for GW detection.

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