December 1, 2016

6.453 Quantum Optical Communication

Lecture 22

Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Optical and Quantum Communications Group

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6.453 Quantum Optical Communication - Lecture 22

§ Announcements
§ Pick up lecture notes, slides
§ Last lecture will be Tuesday, December 13th
§ Term papers are due Tuesday, December 13th

§ Quantum Signatures from Parametric Interactions

§ Hong-Ou-Mandel dip produced by parametric downconversion
§ Polarization entanglement produced by parametric downconversion
§ Photon twins from parametric amplifiers

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Quantum Interference Between Single Photons

§ Input State to 50/50 Beam Splitter:

§ Output State from 50/50 Beam Splitter:

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Hong-Ou-Mandel Interferometer

§ Type-II Experiment:

Coincidence
Counter

SIGNAL
ω P /2 50/50

HWP
T IDLER
ω P /2
Parametric
Device

§ PPKTP: 795 nm output wavelength,

0 0
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Hong-Ou-Mandel Coincidence Dip

§ Average Low-Flux Coincidence Count in -Sec-Long Gate:

§ Low-Flux Gaussian-State Coincidence Counting Theory:

0
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Polarization-Entanglement From Downconversion

§ Anti-Phased Coherently-Pumped Type-II Downconverters:

(a)
I1 I2

S1 S1
OPA
DC 1 1
I1 S2
PBS

S2 I2
DC 2 2
OPA

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Type-II Optical Parametric Amplifier

§ Doubly-Resonant Operation at Frequency Degeneracy

SIGNAL, ω /2
P

IDLER,!
(2)
PUMP,!
PUMP, ωP χ
IDLER, ω P /2
50/50
SIGNAL,!

§ Normally-Ordered and Phase-Sensitive Covariances:

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Photon Twins from a Parametric Amplifier

§ Signal-Minus-Idler Photon Count Difference

signal

idler

§ Unity-Quantum-Efficiency Detection

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Photon Twins from a Parametric Amplifier

§ Signal-Count and Signal-Minus-Idler Count Variances

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Coming Attractions: Lecture 23

§ Lecture 23:
More Quantum Optical Applications
§ Binary optical communication with squeezed states
§ Phase-sensing interferometry with squeezed states
§ Super-dense coding with entangled states
§ Quantum lithography with “N00N” states

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