Spectral shearing of quantum light pulses by electro-optic phase modulation
Quantum Physics
2017-01-11 v2 Optics
Abstract
Frequency conversion of non-classical light enables robust encoding of quantum information based upon spectral multiplexing that is particularly well-suited to integrated-optics platforms. Here we present an intrinsically deterministic linear-optics approach to spectral shearing of quantum light pulses and show it preserves the wave-packet coherence and quantum nature of light. The technique is based upon an electro-optic Doppler shift to implement frequency shear of heralded single-photon wave packets by GHz, which can be scaled to an arbitrary shift. These results demonstrate a reconfigurable, unitary method to controlling the spectral-temporal mode structure of quantum light.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1605.00640,
title = {Spectral shearing of quantum light pulses by electro-optic phase modulation},
author = {Laura J. Wright and Michal Karpinski and Christoph Soeller and Brian J. Smith},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.00640},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
Final version. 5 pages, 3 figures