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Directional amplifiers are crucial nonreciprocal devices in both classical and quantum information processing. Here we propose a scheme for realizing a directional amplifier between optical and microwave fields based on an optomechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-22 Cheng Jiang , L. N. Song , Yong Li

This paper presents a detailed theoretical review of the amplification process in Josephson Parametric Amplifiers (JPAs), which are crucial for quantum-limited signal amplification in superconducting circuits. The paper begins by outlining…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-31 Rajlaxmi Bhoite , Shraddhanjali Choudhury

We present a theoretical analysis of the properties of an unseeded optical parametic amplifier (OPA) used as the source of entangled photons for applications in quantum lithography. We first study the dependence of the excitation rate of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Girish S. Agarwal , Kam Wai Chan , Robert W. Boyd , Hugo Cable , Jonathan P. Dowling

Cavity opto-mechanics enabled radiation-pressure coupling between optical and mechanical modes of a micro-mechanical resonator gives rise to dynamical backaction, enabling amplification and cooling of mechanical motion. Due to a combination…

Optics · Physics 2012-03-19 Siddharth Tallur , Sunil A. Bhave

A particularly simple setup is introduced to study the influence of time-delayed coherent feedback on the optical squeezing properties of the degenerate parametric amplifier (DPA). The possibility for significantly enhanced squeezing is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-10 Nikolett Német , Scott Parkins

We experimentally demonstrate that the quantum entanglement between amplitude and phase quadratures of optical modes produced from a non-degenerate optical parametric amplifier (NOPA) can be enhanced and manipulated phase-sensitively by…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-03-16 Yana Shang , Xiaojun Jia , Yumei Shen , Changde Xie , Kunchi Peng

We study the slow-fast light effect and multi-transparency induced by magnomechanical systems. The system incorporates two magnons, which are collective magnetic excitations, placed alongside a degenerate optical parametric amplifier (OPA)…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-08 M'bark Amghar , Noura Chabar , Mohamed Amazioug

We investigate experimentally the absorptive and dispersive properties of triple-resonant optical parametric amplifier OPA for the degenerate subharmonic field. In the experiment, the subharmonic field is utilized as the probe field and the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Chenguang Ye , Jing Zhang

A Josephson parametric amplifier (JPA) can create squeezed states of microwave light, lowering the noise associated with certain quantum measurements. We experimentally study how the JPA's pump influences the phase-sensitive amplification…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-04-25 M. Malnou , D. A. Palken , Leila R. Vale , Gene C. Hilton , K. W. Lehnert

Here we demonstrate the capacity to manipulate the optical spring (OS) effect by employing an optical parametric amplifier (OPA) within an optical cavity. We observed more than a factor of 2 increase in the OS frequency shift with the OPA.…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-24 Jian Liu , Juntao Pan , Carl Blair , Jue Zhang , Hengxin Sun , Li Ju , Chunnong Zhao

Optical parametric amplification (OPA) comprises essentially a nonlinear four-wave mixing process in which a "pump" and a "signal" field give rise to an "idler" field under certain phase-matching conditions. Here we use a photonic crystal…

We model optomechanical systems as linear optical amplifiers. This provides a unified treatment of diverse optomechanical phenomena. We emphasize, in particular, the relationship between ponderomotive squeezing and optomechanically induced…

In the realm weak force sensing, an important issue is to suppress fundamental noise (quantum noise and thermal noise), as they limit the accuracy of force measurement. In this paper, we investigate a weak force sensing scheme that combines…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-08 Zheng Liu , Yu-qiang Liu , Yi-jia Yang , Chang-shui Yu

Phase-sensitive amplification of squeezed states is a technique to mitigate high detection loss, e.g. at 2-micrometre wavelengths. Our analytical model of amplified squeezed states expands on the effect of phase noise and derives two…

The ability to generate, amplify, mix, and modulate sound with no harmonic distortion in a passive opto-acoustic device would revolutionize the field of acoustics. The photo-thermo-acoustic (PTA) effect allows to transduce light into sound…

Breaking the symmetry in a coupled wave system can result in unusual amplification behavior. In the case of difference parametric amplification the resonant pump frequency is equal to the difference, instead of the sum, frequency of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-17 Wayne Cheng-Wei Huang , Herman Batelaan

A high fidelity amplification of beams carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) is very crucial for OAM multiplexing and other OAM-based applications. Here, we report the first study of stimulated Brillouin amplification (SBA) for OAM beams,…

Optics · Physics 2015-08-11 Wei Gao , Chunyuan Mu , Hongwei Li , Yuqiang Yang , Zhihan Zhu

We propose a method to break the dark mode of two degenerate mechanical resonators (MRs) in optomechanical systems via the Coulomb interaction. Two degenerate MRs can be cooled to their ground-state simultaneously beyond the resolved…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-11 Jian-Song Zhang , Yuan Chen , Guang-Ling Cheng , Ai-Xi Chen

Semiconductor optical amplifiers (SOA) are a fundamental building block for many photonic systems. However, their power inefficiency has been setting back operational cost reduction, and the resulting thermal losses constrain…

The paper describes a novel parametric excitation scheme that acts as a tunable amplifier by controlling two pumping signals and two nonlinear feedback terms. By modulating the stiffness of a mechanical oscillator with a digital signal…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-03-08 Amit Dolev , Izhak Bucher