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 language | English |
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| Article number | 113003 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | New Journal of Physics |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue number | 11 |
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| State | Published - 28 Oct 2021 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was funded by the US-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF-NSF) Grant No. 2017743
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd on behalf of the Institute of Physics and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft
Keywords
- Entangled photons
- Quantum information
- Quantum interference
- Quantum optics