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Quantum optical frequency combs are of great significance in the fields of quantum computing, quantum information, and high precision quantum measurement, which can be produced by using a degenerate type-I synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator (SPOPO). When anisotropic crystal is used as a nonlinear medium in the SPOPO, the spatial walk-off effect will occur due to the birefringence effect, which cannot be ignored and will adversely affect the generation of squeezed state. In this work, we investigate the influence of spatial walk-off effect on the squeezing level of quantum optical frequency combs both theoretically and experimentally. A Ti∶sapphire mode-locked femtosecond pulsed laser which produces 130 fs pulse trains at 815 nm with a repetition rate of 76 MHz is utilized as a fundamental source. Its second harmonic at 407.5 nm is used to pump the collinear BiB3O6 (BIBO) crystal for generating the squeezed vacuum frequency comb. It is indicated that as the crystal length increases, the area of interaction between pump light and signal light decreases gradually. Thus the enhancement of squeezing is eventually limited by the spatial walk-off effect. According to the simulations, the squeezing level reaches a maximum value when the crystal length is 1.49 mm. The quantum properties of squeezed vacuum optical frequency combs obtained for four crystal lengths (0.5, 1.0, 1.5 and 2.0 mm) are subsequently measured experimentally. When the length of BIBO is 1.5 mm, the maximum vacuum squeezing of (3.6±0.2) dB is obtained, which is (7.0±0.2) dB after being corrected for detection loss. The experimental results are consistent with the numerical simulations. This study demonstrates that the spatial walk-off effect in nonlinear crystal is a significant factor affecting the quantum optical frequency comb, and the theoretical model presented in this paper can be used to provide a guideline for optimizing the experimental implementation.
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Keywords:
- quantum optical frequency comb /
- squeezed state /
- spatial walk-off
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图 1 系统阈值(a)和压缩(b)随晶体长度的理论变化曲线. 黑色虚线和红色实线分别是无空间走离和有空间走离的结果.
$ {n_0} = 1.82 $ ,$\chi = 3.54~ \rm pm/V$ ,$ \delta = 0.0468 $ ,$ T = 0.1 $ Figure 1. System threshold (a) and squeezing noise levels (b) as a function of crystal length, respectively. The black dotted line and red line are the results without/with spatial walk-off respectively.
$ {n_0} = 1.82 $ ,$\chi = 3.54~\rm pm/V$ ,$ \delta = 0.0468 $ ,$ T = 0.1 $ .
图 2 量子光频梳产生和测量的实验装置图. HWP, 半波片; PBS, 偏振分束器; DBS, 双色镜; SPOPO, 同步泵浦光学参量振荡器; PZT, 压电陶瓷; SA, 频谱分析仪器
Figure 2. Experimental setup for the generation and measurement of squeezed frequency comb states. HWP, half-wave plate; PBS, polarizing beam splitter; DBS, dichroic beamsplitter; SPOPO, synchronously pumped optical parametric oscillator; PZT, piezoelectric transducer; SA, spectrum analyzer.
图 3 倍频光功率及倍频效率随基频光变化的实验结果
Figure 3. Experimentally dependence of second harmonic power and efficiency on fundamental power.
图 4 种子光与泵浦光的光谱
Figure 4. The spectral profiles of the seed and pump.
图 5 在三种不同透过率下, 系统阈值随晶体长度的变化. 方块为实验测量结果, 曲线为理论计算结果
Figure 5. Dependence of the pump threshold on the crystal length under three different transmissions. The square is the experimental measurement result, and the curve is the theoretical calculation result.
图 6 在三种不同透过率下, 真空压缩随晶体长度变化的结果. 方块为实验测量结果, 曲线为理论计算结果. RBW = 100 kHz, VBW = 100 Hz
Figure 6. Dependence of squeezing noise levels on the crystal length under three different transmission. The square is the experimental measurement result, and the curve is the theoretical calculation result. RBW = 100 kHz, VBW = 100 Hz
图 7 晶体长度1.5 mm、输出耦合镜透过率30%时的真空压缩噪声谱
Figure 7. Squeezed vacuum states versus the sweeping time with 1.5 mm crystal length and 30% transmission.
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Shi S X, Chen G F, Zhao W, Liu J F 2012 Nonlinear Optics (Xidian: University Press) p105 (in Chinese)
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