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High-harmonic generation

Squeezed light effect

The interaction of atoms with intense squeezed light is affected by the quantum noise of the driving field whereby the quantum noise of the squeezed driving field is imprinted in the emitted high harmonics.

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Fig. 1: Attosecond pulse trains generated by the interaction of atoms with intense coherent and squeezed light fields.

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Tzallas, P. Squeezed light effect. Nat. Photon. 17, 463–464 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41566-023-01218-9

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