Physical Review A

Optimizing the output-photon entanglement in multimode optomechanical systems

Zhi Jiao Deng, Xiao-Bo Yan, Ying-Dan Wang, Chun-Wang Wu

Published Mar 23, 2016• 38 citations

Abstract

Entangled light beams are important resources for quantum information processing. For some applications like teleportation, only the entanglement between two wave packets (two harmonic oscillators) is needed. So the calculation of output-photon entanglement involves projecting continuous output modes onto wave-packet modes by filter functions, thus resulting in a strong dependence of entanglement on the filter functions. In this paper, we aim at optimizing the filter functions to obtain a large entanglement in a relatively short time, which is important for utilizing the entangled light beams more efficiently in real experiments. We outline the general optimization procedures based on our previous schemes of generating entangled beams in a multimode optomechanical system. Moreover, we give analytic insights into as well as physical explanations of the wave-packet optimization, which are helpful for experimental estimations.

DOI: 10.1103/physreva.93.033842

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