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The interaction of light with a nonlinear dielectric medium is responsible for a number of the non-classical effects which have been studied in quantum optics in recent years. Squeezing and sub-Poissonian photon statistics can be produced in X (2) media and quantum phase diffusion occurs in X (3) media [1–4]. More recently studies of the propagation of quantized fields in nonlinear media have been undertaken. Squeezing in quantum solitons has been predicted and observed [5,6], as has phase diffusion [6–8]. Collisions of quantum solitons can be used to perform a quantum nondemolition measurement of photon number [9–11].
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Hillery, M. (2004). Nonlinear Dielectrics. In: Drummond, P.D., Ficek, Z. (eds) Quantum Squeezing. Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics, vol 27. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-09645-1_2
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