Quantum engineers in high demand

Rainer Müller, Franziska Greinert

Linda Sansoni, Max Widarsson, Patrick Mutter +1 more

Quantum sources of light are of paramount importance for the development of photonic quantum technologies. The growing demand for bright, efficient, and spectrally engineered photonic sources for applications in quantum sensing, spectroscopy, and imaging has motivated the development of tailored nonlinear crystals. Here, we report on the development and characterization of chirped, apodized KTP crystals specifically engineered for quantum spectroscopy. Our source exhibits an unprecedented bandwidth in a highly non-degenerate configuration, demonstrating its potential to support quantum spectroscopy protocols over broad spectral ranges while enabling significantly shorter measurement times.

Kasturi Lal Chopra, Inderjeet Kaur

Mikhail S. Podoshvedov, Sergey A. Podoshvedov

Abstract Conditional addition and subtraction of photons is a powerful tool for quantum engineering of continuous variable (CV) states that forms the fundamental building blocks of advanced photonic technologies. For high fidelity information processing, precise control of quantum engineering of CV states is highly demanded. We propose a scheme for measurement induced quantum engineering of even/odd superposition of coherent states (SCSs) of amplitude > 2.5 and with fidelity exceeding > 0.99 . It includes single-mode squeezed vacuum (SMSV) state and two separate photons. The output parameters of the SCSs are tuned using initial squeezing of the SMSV states and the beam splitter parameter and depend on number of subtracted photons in two measurement channels. The introduction of two demultiplexed photons is a key element to improving the efficiency of quantum engineering of SCSs. When using two additional photons, both an increase in the fidelity of the output CV state and a gain in probability at least by an order of magnitude compared to the case without auxiliary input photons are observed.

Simon Andrews

Mikhail S. Podoshvedov, Sergey A. Podoshvedov

Conditional addition and subtraction of photons is a powerful tool for quantum engineering of continuous variable (CV) states that forms the fundamental building blocks of advanced photonic technologies. For high fidelity information processing, precise control of quantum engineering of CV states is highly demanded. We propose a scheme for measurement induced quantum engineering of even/odd superposition of coherent states (SCSs) of amplitude>2.5 and with fidelity exceeding>0.99. It includes single-mode squeezed vacuum (SMSV) state and two separate photons. The output parameters of the SCSs are tuned using initial squeezing of the SMSV states and the beam splitter (BS) parameter and depend on number of subtracted photons in two measurement channels. The introduction of two demultiplexed photons is a key element to improving the efficiency of quantum engineering of SCSs. When using two additional photons, both an increase in the fidelity of the output CV state and a gain in probability at least by an order of magnitude compared to the case without auxiliary input photons are observed.