在非对称光腔中利用CRIB技术进行光量子态存储

本文提出了一个在光腔中利用可控逆非均匀展宽技术实现高效的量子存储方案.当光场在光腔中每次往返的吸收与透射到光腔中光场强度完全一样时(阻抗匹配条件),发现进入光腔中的光场可以完全被非均匀展宽原子系综吸收.通过计算得到无论是向前读取还是向后读取的方案,量子存储效率在光深度很小时都可以达到1.若没有光腔100％的存储效率仅仅只有在光深度无穷大时才能得到.在光深度很小时就能达到高效的量子存储在实验上非常容易实现.因此该方案为实验上实现高效的量子存储提供一个确实可行的方法.     

冷原子系综中光纤腔增强且高保真度的光学存储

利用原子系综中的Duan-Lukin-Cirac-Zoller (DLCZ)过程可产生光与原子记忆(自旋波)量子纠缠,该纠缠可作为量子中继的重要元件.随着量子信息研究的深入发展,人们对量子信息存储其灵活多样性、可控性等方面提出更高的要求.本文在冷原子系综中演示了一种基于DLCZ过程的光纤腔增强且高保真度的光学存储方案,即将87Rb原子系综放于设计的光纤腔中,通过光纤腔增强“写出”和“读出”光子与原子系综的耦合实现自旋波量子信息的有效恢复,同时具有较高的保真度.观察到有腔且锁定的情况下斯托克斯光子产生概率比无腔时增加4.6倍,原子自旋波读出效率增加1.6倍,实验实现22%的读出效率并具有92%的量子态保真度,该读出效率对应一个40%的本质读出效率.这种高度可恢复、高量子态保真度的原子-光子纠缠源,可为未来长距离量子通信及广域大规模量子网络构建的实现提供另一种有效的途径.     

原子系综中光学腔增强的Duan-Lukin-Cirac-Zoller写过程激发实验

原子系综中的Duan-Lukin-Cirac-Zoller(DLCZ)过程是产生光与原子(量子界面)量子关联和纠缠的重要手段.当一束写光与原子发生作用时,将会产生斯托克斯(Stokes)光子的自发拉曼散射,并同时产生一个自旋波(spin-wave)存储在原子系综中,上述过程即为DLCZ量子记忆产生过程.这一过程被广泛地研究.本文将87Rb原子系综放入驻波腔,并使Stokes光子与光学腔共振,我们观察到有腔且锁定的情况下Stokes光子产生概率比无腔时增大了8.7倍.在此条件下研究了Stokes光子产生概率和写光功率的关系,Stokes光子产生概率随写光功率线性增大.     

光学腔增强Duan-Lukin-Cirac-Zoller量子记忆读出效率的研究

量子中继是长距离纠缠分发的关键组成部分,而基于原子系综存储的读出效率是量子中继能否实用化的一个重要指标.本文利用冷原子系综中的自发拉曼散射过程产生Duan-Lukin-Cirac-Zoller量子记忆,在原子系综周围搭建环形腔,增强光与原子相互作用,从而提高读出效率,然而,腔内原子的能级分裂使量子记忆的读出效率降低.本文研究了读出效率随读光相对于原子共振线失谐量的变化关系.结果显示:当读光的失谐量为80 MHz时,本质读出效率为45%,这时腔对读出效率的增强倍数为1.68倍.     

冷原子系综内单集体激发态的相干操纵

原子系综内部分原子发生相干态转移后所处量子态被称为集体激发态.如果激发数目在单原子量级则被称为单激发态.在量子存储过程中,单光子以单激发态的形式在原子系综内进行存储.因此,研究单激发态的制备、演化、转化、干涉等过程是量子存储及其应用研究的关键.本文总结了近年来作者所在研究团队针对冷原子系综体系在此研究方向取得的若干成果.主要包括采用动量模式调控、三维光晶格等手段抑制单激发态的退相干,采用环形腔增强原子至光子的转化效率,发展基于拉曼光的单激发态相干转移技术,利用单量子态不同模式间干涉制备光与原子纠缠,利用里德伯阻塞机制提升纠缠制备效率等.此外,简要回顾了基于多个单激发态的量子中继及量子网络实验.     

多个量子节点确定性纠缠的建立

量子纠缠是一种重要的量子资源,在多个空间分离的量子存储器间建立确定性的量子纠缠,然后在用户控制的时刻将所存储的量子纠缠转移到量子信道中进行信息的分发和传送,这对于实现量子信息网络是至关重要的.本文介绍了用光学参量放大器制备与铷原子D1吸收线对应的非经典光场,而且在三个空间分离的原子系综中确定性量子纠缠的产生、存储和转移.利用电磁感应透明光和原子相互作用的原理,将制备的多组分光场纠缠态模式映射到三个远距离的原子系综以建立原子自旋波之间的纠缠.然后,存储在原子系综中的纠缠态通过三个量子通道,纠缠态的量子噪声被转移到三束空间分离的正交纠缠光场.三束释放的光场间纠缠的存在验证了该系统具有保持多组分纠缠的能力.这个方案实现了三个量子节点间的纠缠,并且可以直接扩展到具有更多节点的量子网络,为未来实现大型量子网络通信奠定了基础.     

利用光子回声技术对光的相干态进行存储的研究

具备有效存储和读取光的相干态的能力是实现连续变量量子信息存储的关键。本文研究了利用混合光子回声技术对光场的相干态进行存储和读取。光量子态被记录在原子系综的基态的两个相干能级中从而实现长时间的量子态存储。考虑到由于原子退相干的噪声效应,我们发现在目前可实现的技术条件下存储保真度仍然高于保真度阈值2/3。我们的研究为实现高效准确的基于量子回声技术的光量子态存储提供了一些切实可行的实践指导。     

利用自发拉曼散射建立三个原子节点的纠缠

量子纠缠是一种关键的量子资源.随着量子信息技术的发展,由量子通道和量子节点组成的量子网络成为研究的热点.量子信息网络的建立需要在多个远距离的量子节点间建立纠缠,它在分步式量子计算及量子因特网等方面有很重要的应用价值.本文在光和原子混合纠缠的基础上,提出了结合前馈网络建立三个独立的远程原子系综之间的连续变量确定性纠缠.三个原子系综分别放置在三个远程的节点中,每个节点首先通过自发拉曼散射过程制备光和原子的混合纠缠;然后,利用平衡零拍探测器测量三束Stokes光场干涉后的量子噪声,并将测量的结果前馈到原子系综,在三个独立的远距离的原子系综间建立纠缠;最后,利用来自三个原子系综的三束反斯托克斯光束的关联方差通过三组份不可分判据验证三个原子系综的纠缠.该方案简单可行,可以拓展到基于不同物理系统的量子节点,甚至实现更多原子节点的纠缠,从而实现大规模量子信息网络.     

Y模型四能级原子辅助光力学系统的多稳现象

本文对Y模型四能级原子辅助光力学系统的稳态特性进行了研究.结果发现,构成复合光力学系统的振动腔镜和被束缚在腔内的原子系综将随着弹簧劲度系数的减小,由单稳态过渡到多稳态.在劲度系数很大时,振动腔镜对整个光力学系统几乎无作用,光力学系统和处在腔中的原子系综都将出现一个稳态解.而当劲度系数足够小时,振动腔镜的稳态位移出现了多稳现象,随之对处于光力学腔中的原子系综的稳态行为也产生了影响,不但使得原子系综的极化率呈现出多个稳态解,同时使得腔中的原子系综对探测光的吸收和色散也发生了相应的变化.同时发现,通过调节劲度系数的取值可以控制整个系统稳态解的个数.这些研究结果在精密测量或量子信息处理等方面具有潜在应用价值.     

光腔耦合阵列中四模方形Cluster态的制备

提出一种四模方形cluster态的制备方案,方案选用四个分别包含一个原子系综的独立单模光腔,光腔之间用短光纤实现耦合.讨论证明在合适外加激光脉冲的驱动下,可确定性的制备得到稳定的四模方形cluster态.通过调节驱动激光的频率和相位,该方案可以拓展到多模和其他形cluster态的制备.     

Guided-Wave Two-Dimensional Acousto-Optic Scanner Using Proton-Exchanged Lithium Niobate Waveguide

Two-dimensional scanning of a 0.6328 mum guided-light beam has been realized using noncolinear acousto-optic (AO) coplanar Bragg diffraction together with colinear AO guided-mode to substrate radiation-mode conversion in a Z-cut Xpropagation LiNbO3 proton-exchanged (PE) waveguide. The two surface acoustic (SAW) waves utilized are at the center frequencies of 500 and 200 MHz, propagating in the Y and X axes, respectively. Two-dimensional scanning of approximately 720 resolvable light beam spots, namely, 18 40 (horizontal vertical) scanning, has been demonstrated using a light beam of 1.0 mm aperture. The total number of resolvable beam spots can be greatly increased from 720 by simply utilizing SAW transducers of larger bandwidth and a light beam of greater aperture. It should also be possible to significantly increase the diffraction efficiency from 3 % by optimizing the parameters of the PE waveguide and the SAWs.     

Femtosecond Transform-Limited Pulse Generation by Compensating for the Linear Chirp of SPM Spectra in Dispersion Shifted Fibers

A simple technique of pulse compression, based on the linear chirp compensation of self-phase modulation (SPM) spectra in dispersion shifted fibers, is demonstrated. The optimization procedure is carried out, for a short span of a single-mode fiber, using a parabolic law, which describes the behavior of the squared output pulse width versus the pump peak power in the case of Gaussian pulses. The experimental results give a minimum pulse duration of 233 fs, which is in good agreement with the model. Shorter and coherent pulses, down to 90 fs, have been obtained by inserting an interference filter at the optical output.     

Effect ofγ-radiation on the spectral luminescence characteristics of impure cadmium tungstate crystals

Results of a study of the effect of γ-radiation on the spectral luminescence properties of cadmium tungstate crystals doped with silver, bismuth, and molybdenum cations are presented. Spectral characteristics of the nondnnnoped crystals are briefly described. Absorption and photo and X-ray luminescence spectra of the crystals taken before and after exposure to γ-radiation (5.5·10⁴ Gy) are compared. It is found that the spectral characteristics of the crystals doped with silver, bismuth, and molybdenum cations do not change markedly after the exposure. The relation between the type of impurity-induced defects, individual characteristics of the impurity cations, and the character of the effect of γ-radiation on the spectral luminescence properties of impure crystals is analyzed (preliminarily). Translated from Zhurnal Prikladnoi Spektroskopii, Vol. 64, No. 1, pp. 55–60, January–February, 1997.     

Theoretical analysis and simulation of conjugate heights for dual-conjugate AO system in lidar

A multi-conjugate adaptive optics （MCAO） can offer a possibility of widening field of view （FOV） characterized by the isoplanatic angle, and the choose of conjugate height becomes a basic problem for MCAO, which influences the size of iosplanatic angle. Considering the application of lidar, the isoplanatic angle＇s expressions of two deformable mirrors （DMs） MCAO for uplink and downlink are deduced. The effects of conjugate heights for dual-conjugate AO are thoughtfully discussed, and the isoplanatic angles are further analyzed. The results show that the isopanatic angle varies with the conjugate height and reaches the maximum as the conjugate height is at the optimal altitude. Moreover, the optimal conjugate height changes with the propagation distance.     

Quick single-photon detector with many avalanche photo diodes working on the time division

Due to the limit of response speed of the present single-photon detector, the code rate is still too low to come into practical use for the present quantum key distribution (QKD) system.A new idea is put up to design a quick single-photon detector.This quick single-photon detector is composed of a multi-port optic-fiber splitter and many avalanche photo diodes (APDs).Au of the ports with APDs work on the time division and cooperate with a logic discriminating and deciding unit driven by the clock signal.The operation frequency lies on the number N of ports, and can reach N times of the conventional single-photon detector.The single-photon prompt detection can come true for high repetition-rate pulses.The applying of this detector will largely raise the code rate of the QKD, and boost the commercial use.     

Sorting of bending magnets for the SSRF booster

The Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility(SSRF)booster ring,a full energy injector for the storage ring,is deigned to accelerate the electron beam energy from 150MeV to 3.5GeV that demands high extraction efficiency at the extraction energy with low beam loss rate when electrons are ramping.Closed orbit distortion(COD)caused by bending magnet field uniformity errors which affects the machine performance harmfully could be effectively reduced by bending magnet location sorting.Considering the affections of random errors in measurement,both ideal sorting and realistic sorting are studied based on measured bending magnet field uniformity errors and one reasonable combination of bending magnets which can reduce the horizontal COD by a factor of 5is given as the final installation sequence of the booster bending magnets in this paper.     

Improvement of four-wave mixing-based wavelength conversion efficiency in dispersion shifted fiber by 40-GHz clock pumping

40-GHz clock modulated signal as a pump to improve the efficiency of four-wave mixing (FWM)-based wavelength conversion in a 26.5-km dispersion shifted fiber (DSF) is investigated. The experimental results demonstrate that the conjugated FWM component has higher intensity with the clock pumping than that with the continuous-wave (CW) light pumping. The improvement of FWM-based wavelength conversion efficiency is negligible when the pump power is less than Brillouin threshold. But when the pump power is greater than Brillouin threshold, the improvement becomes significant and increases with the increment of pump power. The improvement can increase up to 9 dB if pump power reaches 17 dBm.     

Characterization of PolyA and PolyC mismatches by Raman spectroscopy

A.C mismatches are studied by Raman spectral characterization of PolyA, PolyC, and their equimolar complex in solution of 0.14 mol/L Na ,pH7.0.Experimental results show that A·C mismatches occur to be A/B (mainly A) conformers, and unlike Watson-Crick base pairing, this kind of mismatches is stabilized by only one hydrogen bond involving cytosine N4H2 and adenine N7.The formation of A·C complex makes the base stacking interactions much stronger, and conformation of the backbone more ordered, which leads to obvious Raman hypochromic effect with some shifts in corresponding bands.