Realization of an ultrastable twin-beam source for continuous-variable entanglement of bright beams

Sheng Feng; Olivier Pfister

doi:10.1117/12.504777

3 February 2004 Realization of an ultrastable twin-beam source for continuous-variable entanglement of bright beams

Sheng Feng, Olivier Pfister

Proceedings Volume 5161, Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging; (2004) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.504777
Event: Optical Science and Technology, SPIE's 48th Annual Meeting, 2003, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We report the realization of a classically phase-locked source of quantum twin beams. Theoretical work by Reid and Drummond, and more recently by van Loock and Braunstein, predicts that such a source is adequate for creating bipartite and multipartite continuous-variable entanglement. The source is a type-II optical parametric oscillator (OPO) above threshold. Its exceptional frequency and intensity stability is derived from careful design and from three servo loops. The OPO can stably emit on the frequency-degenerate mode, pumped a few percent above the threshold. We observe a preliminary number-difference squeezing of 5.5 dB (6.4 dB inferred) at 200 kHz. In order to enable future EPR measurements, the signal and idler fields must also be classically phase-locked: we measure a signal-idler-frequency-difference linewidth smaller than 300 Hz for our OPO.

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Sheng Feng and Olivier Pfister "Realization of an ultrastable twin-beam source for continuous-variable entanglement of bright beams", Proc. SPIE 5161, Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging, (3 February 2004); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.504777

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