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In this chapter, we deal with the general properties of squeezed states. We also describe two methods of detection of these states.
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Orszag, M. (2016). States of the Electromagnetic Field II. In: Quantum Optics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29037-9_5
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