Optimal detection of ultra-broadband bi-photons with quantum nonlinear SU(1,1) interference

Nir Nechushtan, Hanzhong Zhang, Mallachi Meller, Avi Pe'er

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Abstract

The visibility of nonlinear SU(1,1) interference directly reflects the nonclassical properties of entangled bi-photons and squeezed light with practically unlimited bandwidth, high efficiency and ultra-high photon flux, orders of magnitude beyond the abilities of standard photo-detectors. We study experimentally the dependence of the SU(1,1) visibility on the phase matching conditions and beam parameters in a free-space configuration, and show that maximal SU(1,1) visibility requires extreme collinear conditions, which deviate from the conditions for maximal nonlinear conversion. We demonstrate near-ideal visibility of ∼95% (limited only by internal loss) in an ultra-broadband SU(1,1), interferometer with over 120 THz of squeezed light bandwidth. Utilizing this analysis we demonstrate efficient detection of the spectral phase of single-cycle bi-photons and precise compensation of the dispersion over a full octave of bandwidth.

Original languageEnglish
Article number113003
JournalNew Journal of Physics
Volume23
Issue number11
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2021

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft

Funding

This research was funded by the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF-NSF) Grant No. 2017743

FundersFunder number
BSF-NSF2017743
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation

    Keywords

    • Entangled photons
    • Quantum information
    • Quantum interference
    • Quantum optics

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