Abstract
We analyze the output of a degenerate optical parametric amplifier using a different approach to understanding and characterizing multimode squeezed light. This approach is based on the concept of eigenmodes of the squeezing and predicts the mode structure of the local oscillator that should be used in order to measure the smallest quadrature noise. Although the importance of mode matching is well known, we find that typical experimental setups are suboptimal and we predict that in such cases squeezed light measurements stand to be improved noticeably with appropriate shaping (in space and/or time) of the local oscillator field in accordance with the results of the theory. Under conditions of negligible or small phase mismatch, the optimal local oscillator pulse duration is found to be approximately equal to the geometric mean of the pump pulse duration and nonlinear response time. Also, we find that the effective number of squeezed modes can be altered by varying the pump pulse duration and/or phase-matching parameters.
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