43 research outputs found
Effect of the heralding detector properties on the conditional generation of single-photon states
Single-photons play an important role in emerging quantum technologies and information processing. An efficient generation technique consists in preparing such states via a conditional measurement on photon-number correlated beams: the detection of a single-photon on one of the beam can herald the generation of a single-photon state on the other one. Such scheme strongly depends on the heralding detector properties, such as its quantum efficiency, noise or photon-number resolution ability. These parameters affect the preparation rate and the fidelity of the generated state. After reviewing the theoretical description of optical detectors and conditional measurements, and how both are here connected, we evaluate the effects of these properties and compare two kind of devices, a conventional on/off detector and a two-channel detector with photon-number resolution ability
Generalized approach for enabling multimode quantum optics
We develop a universal approach enabling the study of any multimode quantum optical system evolving under a quadratic Hamiltonian. Our strategy generalizes the standard symplectic analysis and permits the treatment of multimode systems even in situations where traditional theoretical methods cannot be applied. This enables the description and investigation of a broad variety of key-resources for experimental quantum optics, ranging from optical parametric oscillators, to silicon-based micro-ring resonator, as well as opto-mechanical systems
Continuous-variable entanglement of two bright coherent states that never interacted
We study continuous-variable entanglement of bright quantum states in a pair
of evanescently coupled nonlinear waveguides operating in the
regime of degenerate down-conversion. We consider the case where only the
energy of the nonlinearly generated fields is exchanged between the waveguides
while the pump fields stay independently guided in each original waveguide. We
show that this device, when operated in the depletion regime, entangles the two
non-interacting bright pump modes due to a nonlinear cascade effect. It is also
shown that two-colour quadripartite entanglement can be produced when certain
system parameters are appropriately set. This device works in the
traveling-wave configuration, such that the generated quantum light shows a
broad spectrum. The proposed device can be easily realized with current
technology and therefore stands as a good candidate for a source of bipartite
or multipartite entangled states for the emerging field of optical
continuous-variable quantum information processing.Comment: 10 pages, 12 figure
Witnessing trustworthy single-photon entanglement with local homodyne measurements
Single-photon entangled states, i.e. states describing two optical paths
sharing a single photon, constitute the simplest form of entanglement. Yet they
provide a valuable resource in quantum information science. Specifically, they
lie at the heart of quantum networks, as they can be used for quantum
teleportation, swapped and purified with linear optics. The main drawback of
such entanglement is the difficulty in measuring it. Here, we present and
experimentally test an entanglement witness allowing one not only to say
whether a given state is path-entangled but also that entanglement lies in the
subspace where the optical paths are each filled with one photon at most, i.e.
refers to single-photon entanglement. It uses local homodyning only and relies
on no assumption about the Hilbert space dimension of the measured system. Our
work provides a simple and trustful method for verifying the proper functioning
of future quantum networks.Comment: published versio
Minimum resources for versatile continuous variable entanglement in integrated nonlinear waveguides
In a recent paper [Phys. Rev. A {\bf 96}, 053822 (2017)], we proposed a
strategy to generate bipartite and quadripartite continuous-variable
entanglement of bright quantum states based on degenerate down-conversion in a
pair of evanescently coupled nonlinear waveguides. Here, we show
that the resources needed for obtaining these features can be optimized by
exploiting the regime of second harmonic generation: the combination of
depletion and coupling among pump beams indeed supplies all necessary
wavelengths and appropriate phase mismatch along propagation. Our device thus
entangles the two fundamental classical input fields without the participation
of any harmonic ancilla. Depending on the propagation distance, the generated
harmonics are entangled in bright or vacuum modes. We also evidence two-color
bipartite and quadripartite entanglement over the interacting modes. The
proposed device represents a boost in continuous-variable integrated quantum
optics since it enables a broad range of quantum effects in a very simple
scheme, which optimizes the resources and can be easily realized with current
technology.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figure