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Annual Meeting Optical Society of America

Experimental quantum nondemolitional measurements using soliton collisions

S. R. Friberg, S. Machida, Y. Yamamoto

Published Jan 1, 1991• 1 citation

Abstract

The collision of two optical solitons, one a probe and the other a signal, writes out the energy of the signal soliton as a phase shift of the probe soliton. Consequently, a readout of the probe phase shift gives the photon number of the signal soliton. If the collision takes place in a low-loss optical fiber with the usual Kerr nonlinearity, the photon number of the signal soliton is preserved, and the measurement can be a quantum nondemolitional (QND) measurement. We describe experimental progress towards soliton collision QND measurements. We have collided two solitons at 1.460 nm (probe) and 1.463 nm (signal) and with the help of a delayed reference soliton (identical to the probe) in a homodyne detector system, we have measured the resulting probe soliton phase shifts. Toward a QND measurement, we correlate the shot noise fluctuations of the signal soliton with the corresponding phase noise fluctuations written on the probe. We present our current results.

DOI: 10.1364/oam.1991.mf1

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