50 research outputs found
Toward integrated tantalum pentoxide optical parametric oscillators
We present a hybrid waveguide-fiber optical parametric oscillator (OPO)
exploiting degenerate four-wave mixing in tantalum pentoxide. The OPO, pumped
with ultrashort pulses at 1.55 m wavelength, generated tunable idler
pulses with up to 4.1 pJ energy tunable between 1.63 m and 1.68 m
center wavelength. An upper bound for the total tolerable cavity loss of 32 dB
was found, rendering a chip-integrated OPO feasible as a compact and robust
light source.Comment: 5 pages and 5 figures, submitted to Optics Letter
Entanglement of distant atoms by projective measurement: The role of detection efficiency
We assess proposals for entangling two distant atoms by measurement of
emitted photons, analyzing how their performance depends on the photon
detection efficiency. We consider schemes based on measurement of one or two
photons and compare them in terms of the probability to obtain the detection
event and of the conditional fidelity with which the desired entangled state is
created. Based on an unravelling of the master equation, we quantify the
parameter regimes in which one or the other scheme is more efficient, including
the possible combination of the one-photon scheme with state purification. In
general, protocols based on one-photon detection are more efficient in set-ups
characterized by low photon detection efficiency, while at larger values
two-photon protocols are preferable. We give numerical examples based on
current experiments.Comment: 12 pages, 6 figure