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How can we describe the propagation of a short pulse of nonclassical light through a transparent linear or nonlinear medium? For example, how is a short pulse of squeezed light generated when an intense laser pulse undergoes parametric downconversion in a traveling-wave configuration inside a nonlinear crystal? How does such a squeezed pulse undergo self-phase modulation as it propagates in a nonlinear optical fiber? What are its quantum statistics at the exit of the fiber?
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Abram, I., Cohen, E. (1992). Direct Space Quantum Optics: Light Propagation in a Nonlinear Medium. In: Tombesi, P., Walls, D.F. (eds) Quantum Measurements in Optics. NATO ASI Series, vol 282. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3386-3_25
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