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Journal of the Optical Society of America B

Logic NOT gates of the intensity–noise correlation and squeezing in a diamond nitrogen-vacancy center

Yang Liu, Faizan Raza, Kangkang Li, Habib Ullah, Yanpeng Zhang, Wenfu Zhang, Wei Zhao

Published Sep 9, 2019• 1 citation
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Abstract

Color defects in a diamond nitrogen-vacancy (NV) center represent an important physical system for emergent quantum technologies such as logic gates and registers at room temperature. We realized an optical logic NOT gate by inducing a phase shift in a diamond NV center under nonlinear Kerr effect of spontaneous parametric four-wave mixing (SP-FWM). Also, we discussed the intensity–noise correlation and intensity-difference squeezing of SP-FWM and composite signals (SP-FWM+fluorescence) under self-phase modulation (SPM) and cross-phase modulation (XPM) induced by the nonlinear Kerr effect in V-type and double V-type atomic systems. Our experimental results provide an advanced technique of switching contrast by approximately 90%. Different parameters, such as the power of input laser beam and boxcar gate position, were also configured to control the SPM and XPM, which determine the switching phenomenon for correlation and squeezing.

DOI
10.1364/josab.36.002727

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