Enhanced optical limiting performance of a nonlinear absorber in a solution containing scattering nanoparticles

The optical limiting performance of a water-soluble porphyrin derivative is shown to be improved when small-sized (400-nm-diameter) nonabsorbing polystyrene spheres are added to the solution. The optical limiting enhancement is attributed to absorption of diffusive photons that experience longer light pathways than ballistic photons. The effect is demonstrated for nanosecond laser excitation at 532 nm.     

Non-classicality of photon added coherent and thermal radiations

Production and analysis of non-Gaussian radiation fields has evinced a lot of attention recently. Simplest way of generating such non-Gaussians is through adding (subtracting) photons to Gaussian fields. Interestingly, when photons are added to classical Gaussian fields, the resulting states exhibit non-classicality. Two important classical Gaussian radiation fields are coherent and thermal states. Here, we study the non-classical features of such states when photons are added to them. Non-classicality of these states shows up in the negativity of the Wigner function. We also work out the entanglement potential, a recently proposed measure of non-classicality for these states. Our analysis reveals that photon added coherent states are non-classical for all seed beam intensities; their non-classicality increases with the addition of more number of photons. Thermal state exhibits non-classicality at all temperatures, when a photon is added; lower the temperature, higher is their non-classicality.     

Heralded path-entangled NOON states generation from a reconfigurable photonic chip

Maximal multi-photon entangled states, known as NOON states, play an essential role in quantum metrology. With the number of photons growing, NOON states are becoming increasingly powerful and advantageous for obtaining supersensitive and super-resolved measurements. In this paper, we propose a universal scheme for generating three- and four-photon path-entangled NOON states on a reconfigurable photonic chip via photons subtracted from pairs and detected by heralding counters. Our method is postselection free, enabling phase supersensitive measurements and sensing at the Heisenberg limit. Our NOON-state generator allows for integration of quantum light sources as well as practical and portable precision phase-related measurements.     

一种新的预报单光子源诱骗态量子密钥分发方案

提出一种新的预报单光子源诱骗态量子密钥分发方案.在发端采用参量下变换产生纠缠光子对,其中之一用来进行预报探测,根据探测结果将另一路光脉冲分成两个集合,其中预报探测有响应的脉冲集合用作信号态,无响应的脉冲集合作为诱骗态.由于探测效率的问题,这两个集合都是有光子的,通过这两个集合的通过率和错误率估计出单光子的通过率和错误率.此方法不需要改变光强,简单可行.仿真结果表明：该方法可以达到完美单光子源的安全通信距离;与预报单光子源的量子密钥分发相比,密钥产生率有了很大的提高;和三强度预报单光子源诱骗态量子密钥分发的 关键词： 量子保密通信 量子密钥分发 诱骗态 预报单光子源     

Reflectivity of a one-dimensional electron-phonon system

The effect of the giant Kohn anomaly in a one dimensional system on the optical reflectivity is calculated, for parameters believed to be characteristic for TTFTCNQ. It is found that the Kohn anomaly in the optical phonon branch due to stretching vibrations of the CN groups, whose unperturbed frequency is 2100–2200 cm^?1, produces a minimum in the reflectivity at 1600 cm^?, approximately. This minimum coincides with the minimum w found experimentally by Bright, Garito and Heeger. By this mechanism, phonons with a wavevector of order 2k_F affect the reflectivity of photons with q ≈ 0.     

Plasmon surface polariton luminescence from periodic metal gratings

When a gold grating is illuminated at an appropriate energy, polarization, and angle to excite a plasmon surface polariton (SP) all lower energy radiative SP states emit light. This enables the dispersion of SP states to be mapped by luminescence providing an alternative to reflectivity measurements. A similar effect has been observed for bare silver gratings, and silver gratings coated with several layers of cadmium arachidate by Langmuir-Blodgett technique. Two additional effects have been observed for Au gratings. First, one can obtain emission from radiative SP states by exciting the interband transition directly with photons of energy greater than approximately 2.4 eV. At these energies, SP states do not exist because the metal dielectric function has a large imaginary part. This is significant because it suggests that the degradation pathway involves electron-hole pair states as intermediates. Second, some gold gratings show $\text{surface enhanced Raman}$ of molecular species superimposed on the SP luminescence emission.     

On teleportation in a system of identical particles

The teleportation of an unknown polarization state of one of the photons in a system of identical particles has been considered. It has been shown that the spatial degrees of freedom, which are various directions of the momentum of three photons, are of significant importance for teleportation in the system of identical particles. The inclusion of the spatial degrees of freedom increases the dimension of the space of single-particle states. In view of this increase, a four-dimensional subspace of two-particle states, which is similar to the space of states spanned on the Bell states in the system of two distinguishable qubits, can be separated in the experimental configuration.     

Internal-Field Characteristics of Spherical Particles

The finely stratified sphere model was used to calculate electromagnetic fields inside homogeneous and radially inhomogeneous spheres which are illuminated by electromagnetic plane waves. A complete picture of the internal fields is given for spheres whose diameters are comparable to the wavelength (α = 1.5 and 5, where α = 2 πa/γs is the size parameter of the sphere) and spheres whose diameters are much larger than the, wavelength (α as high as 150), for coated spheres (spheres composed of a homogeneous core and a homogeneous shell) and gradient-index spheres (spheres with a continuous of refractive index), for spheres at states of morphology-dependent resonances (MDRs) and those at non-resonant states.     

Influence of crystal mosaicity on the X-radiation characteristics observed at a small angle to the particle velocity direction

b-class mosaic crystals, including pyrolytic graphite, are widely used as neutron and X-ray mono-chromators in experimental physics and ensure a more intense yield of monochromatic radiation than do perfect crystals. A new technique that has been proposed for calculating the X-ray reflectivity of these crystals via the Monte Carlo method is implemented. According to this technique, repeated reflections of photons inside crystals and the experiment geometry can be correctly estimated for an arbitrary mosaicity distribution.     

Quantum state engineering using conditional measurement on a beam splitter

State preparation via conditional output measurement on a beam splitter is studied, assuming the signal mode is mixed with a mode prepared in a Fock state and photon numbers are measured in one of the output channels. It is shown that the mode in the other output channel is prepared in either a photon-subtracted or a photon-added Jacobi polynomial state, depending upon the difference between the number of photons in the input Fock state and the number of photons in the output Fock state onto which it is projected. The properties of the conditional output states are studied for coherent and squeezed input states, and the probabilities of generating the states are calculated. Relations to other states, such as near-photon-number states and squeezed-state-excitations, are given and proposals are made for generating them by combining the scheme with others. Finally, effects of realistic photocounting and Fock-state preparation are discussed. Received: 17 March 1998 / Revised and Accepted: 8 May 1998     

Single calcium-40 ion as quantum memory for photon polarization: a case study

We present several schemes for heralded storage of polarization states of single photons in single ions, using the ⁴⁰Ca⁺ ion and photons at 854 nm wavelength as specific example. We compare the efficiencies of the schemes and the requirements for their implementation with respect to the preparation of the initial state of the ion, the absorption process and its analysis. These schemes may be used to create and herald entanglement of two distant ions through entanglement swapping; they are easily adapted to other atomic systems and wavelengths.     

High-Capacity Quantum Summation with Single Photons in Both Polarization and Spatial-Mode Degrees of Freedom

In this paper, we employ single photons in both polarization and spatial-mode degrees of freedom to design a quantum summation protocol. We assume that the third party, i.e. TP, is semi-honest in our protocol. That TP is semi-honest means TP executes the protocol loyally, keeps a record of all its intermediate computations and might try to steal the participants’ private inputs from the record, but he cannot be corrupted by the adversary. Participants can independently encode their private inputs on the polarization states and the spatial-mode states of single photons. Thus our protocol doubles the capacity of quantum communication compared with those based on single photons with only one degree of freedom. In addition, our protocol is feasible as the preparation and the measurement of single-photon quantum states in both the polarization and the spatial-mode degrees of freedom are available with current quantum techniques. We also analyze its security in this paper.     

减光子压缩真空态的反群聚效应

利用玻色产生算符的逆算符及玻色湮没算符作用于压缩真空态来构造减光子压缩真空态,并通过计算减光子压缩真空态的二阶关联函数来讨论它们的光子反群聚性质。数值计算结果表明,在两种情况下所得到的减光子压缩真空态当湮没光子数k为奇数时均呈现出群聚效应,而当k为偶数时呈现反群聚效应。所呈现的反群聚效应对应的压缩参量η的取值区间与湮没的光子数k有关,在玻色产生箅符的逆算符的作用下随着k的增加,反群聚效应对应的压缩参量η的取值区间扩大,在玻色湮没算符作用下则相反。同时,作出二阶关联函数随压缩参量η变化的曲线来描述减光子压缩真空态所呈现的反群聚效应的变化特性。     

Model of a proposed superconducting phase slip oscillator: a method for obtaining few-photon nonlinearities

We theoretically investigate a driven oscillator with the superconducting inductance subject to quantum phase slips (QPS). We find uncommon nonlinearities in the proposed device: they oscillate as a function of the number of photons N with a local period of the order of √N. We prove that such nonlinearities result in multiple metastable states encompassing few photons and study oscillatory dependence of various responses of the oscillator. Such nonlinearities enable new possibilities for quantum manipulation of photon states and very sensitive measurements to confirm the coherence of phase slips.     

Generation of entangled states of qudits using twin photons

We report an experiment to generate entangled states of D-dimensional quantum systems, qudits, by using transverse spatial correlations of two parametric down-converted photons. Apertures with D slits in the arms of the twin photons define the qudit space. By manipulating the pump beam correctly, the twin photons will pass only by symmetrically opposite slits, generating entangled states between these different paths. Experimental results for qudits with D = 4 and 8 are shown. We demonstrate that the generated states are entangled states.     

超宽频带THz脉冲在随机散射介质中传播的理论研究

研究了超宽频带THz脉冲入射到散射介质中时其透射脉冲的时空特性.根据Mie理论计算出随机散射介质的散射系数和各向异性因子,用时间分辨Monte Carlo方法模拟了超宽频带的THz脉冲在随机散射介质中的传播,研究了在不同散射颗粒半径,不同频宽的THz入射脉冲对透射脉冲的影响和散射对成像分辨率的影响.结果表明:散射会降低THz脉冲在随机散射介质中的成像分辨率,散射颗粒越小,散射介质越厚,其成像分辨率越差.     

Thermal dissipation effects of the entangled photon generated by a nonlinear ring resonator

We firstly analyze the thermal dissipation effects of the entangled photons generated by a nonlinear optical ring resonator. To obtain the corresponding equation of motion of the entangled photons generated by a four-wave mixing process within the system, we propose the Markov approximation to repel the reservoir operators. The system master equation in the interaction picture for both degenerate and non-degenerate cases is analyzed and obtained. The established system can be used to characterize the optimum entangled photons in some cases where the thermal dissipation effects may introduce noise into the system. In this work, the entangled photons can be generated into two forms, firstly, the two entangled photon states are generated and, the other, the four entangled photon states, can be easily obtained. Results obtained have shown that the optimum entangled photon in terms of entangled photon visibility can be compensated (i.e. unchanged) under thermal dissipation effects.     

Sum rules for complex reflection amplitudes of photons

Using the Kramers-Kronig dispersion relations, sum rules have been derived for the complex reflection amplitudes of photons. They provide direct consistency criteria in the analysis of reflectivity measurements.     

Addendum: Hawking Radiation of Photons in a Variable-Mass Kerr Black Hole

Hawking evaporation of photons in a variable-mass Kerr space-time is investigated by using a method of the generalized tortoise coordinate transformation. The blackbody radiant spectrum of photons displays a new spin-rotation coupling effect obviously dependent on different helicity states of photons.     

Regulated and entangled photons from a single quantum Dot

We propose a new method of generating nonclassical optical field states. The method uses a semiconductor device, which consists of a single quantum dot as active medium embedded in a p- i- n junction and surrounded by a microcavity. Resonant tunneling of electrons and holes into the quantum dot ground states, together with the Pauli exclusion principle, produce regulated single photons or regulated pairs of photons. We propose that this device also has the unique potential to generate pairs of entangled photons at a well-defined repetition rate.