Abstract
The behavior of short quantum light pulses propagating in dispersive and absorbing linear ground-state dielectrics is studied, with special emphasis on squeezed pulses. The analysis is based on normally ordered correlation functions of the electric-field strength, which are related to quantities at the entrance plane, on using quantum Langevin equations. Using nonmonochromatic-mode expansion and restricting attention to a single-mode pulse in a squeezed state, the influence on squeezing of the pulse propagation in the medium is discussed in both the time and frequency domains, and it is shown that the noise reduction observable in homodyne detection sensitively depends on the phase control used. Effects, such as squeezing enhancement associated with pulse compression and the destructive influence of the spectral shift caused by absorption, are demonstrated. The numerical results are supplemented by analytical estimations derived for narrow-bandwidth Gaussian pulses. \textcopyright{} 1996 The American Physical Society.
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