Quantum Properties of Light

Huang Chun-Jia

The quantum correlation properties of light interacting with Bose-Einstein Condensate of two-level atoms are studied. The results show that the quantum correlation properties of light keep invariant in the process of interaction between light and atomic BEC, which is determined by initial light field.

Luca Salasnich

Haozhen Li, Jingping Xu, Da‐Wei Wang +3 more

An optical diode made of an asymmetric cavity containing a two-level atom is investigated. We focus on the quantum-statistical property of the transmitted field with nonclassical light input. Both coherent and squeezed light inputs have been considered. The results show that the transmitted contrast of such optical diode is independent of the statistical properties of the incident light but is only sensitive to its intensity. On the other hand, the quantum-statistical property, i.e., the squeezing, of the transmitted field strongly depends on the statistical properties and directions of the incident light. For squeezed light input, the degree of the squeezing of the transmitted field can be remarkably enhanced. Moreover, the squeezing of the amplitude quadrature of the incident light can be transferred to the phase quadrature due to the coupling of the light and the atom.

Da‐Wei Wang, G. S. Agarwal

Sen Li, Hao-Zhen Li, Jingping Xu +2 more

All-optical diodes and all-optical transistors are the basis of all-optical logic devices. We study the quantum statistical properties of all-optical diodes based on cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED)[ 1 ], and discuss the squeezed properties of the output light after passing through the diode when coherent light and squeezed light are incident. Here we extend our research to all-optical transistor, and take all-optical transistor based on cavity optomechanical system as the research object. By changing the intensity of classical pump light, the all-optical transistor can effectively control the output of the probe light and realize optical amplification. We discuss the squeezed properties of the output light of the all-optical transistor with squeezed light and coherent light as the probe light. Our results show that when the probe light is coherent, the output light remains coherent no matter whether it works in the amplified region, and is not squeezed. When the input probe light is amplitude squeezed light, the output light is still squeezed light in the light amplification region of all-optical transistor, but the squeezed properties are modulated by the input light squeezed properties and system parameters. When the squeezed angle of the input probe squeezed light is 0°, the minimum squeezed parameter S1 of the output squeezed light decreases with the increase of the squeezed coefficient r of the input probe light, and the minimum value approaches to the squeezed limit of –0.25. But the change of squeezed angle of the input probe squeezed light changes has a great influence on the squeezed parameter S1,2 of the output light, and the squeezed properties will disappear. Only when the squeezed angle is an integer multiple of π, will the squeezed properties of the output light be best. This result has a potential application value in quantum measurement, weak signal detection, and other fields.