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Cold atomic clouds were used as a nonlinear medium to reduce the quantum noise of a light field. The cold atoms were placed in a resonant optical cavity. Quadrature squeezing as high as 40% was measured on the beam going out of the cavity containing the cold atoms.
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Giacobino, E., Lambrecht, A., Courty, J.M., Coudreau, T. (1996). Squeezing the Light with Laser Cooled Atoms. In: Rarity, J., Weisbuch, C. (eds) Microcavities and Photonic Bandgaps: Physics and Applications. NATO ASI Series, vol 324. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-0313-5_43
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