  We investigate the effect of 2-beam coupling in different imaging geometries
in generating intensity-difference squeezing from four-wave mixing (4WM) in Rb
atomic vapors. A recently-introduced dual-seeding technique can cancel out the
classical noise in a seeded four-wave mixing process. This dual-seeding
technique, however, can introduce new complications that involve 2-beam
coupling between different seeded spatial modes in the atomic vapor and can
ruin squeezing at frequencies on the order of the atomic linewidth and below.
This complicates some forms of quantum imaging using these systems. Here we
show that seeding the 4WM process with skew rays can eliminate the excess noise
caused by 2-beam coupling. To avoid 2-beam coupling in bright, seeded images,
it is important to re-image the object in the gain medium, instead of focussing
through it.
