自发参量下转换双光子场绝对校准光电探测器的方法研究

讨论了一种基于自发参量下转换双光子场绝对校准光电探测器灵敏度的新方法,着重推导了对自发参量下转换过程中产生的单光子的探测概率和双光子的符合速率,从而阐明了绝对测量光电探测器量子效率的原理.基于这一方法对光子计数型光电倍增管的响应灵敏度进行了测量,并将实验结果与常规方法测得的结果进行了比较. 关键词：     

单光子探测器量子效率的自绝对标定

单光子探测器日益广泛地应用于科学研究的各个领域，精确地标定其量子效率成为应用的先决条件。我们首次实现了单光子探测器量子效率自绝对标定的原理性实验，即只利用待测探测器本身就可以对其量子效率进行绝对标定，而不需要第二个探测器或任何参考标准。该方法基于自发参量下转换产生的纠缠光子对的时间关联性，在信号光子和闲散光子之间引入延时，由单光子计数率和符合计数率测得探测器的量子效率。     

基于相关光子的单光子探测器量子效率测量系统

为准确测量近红外波段单光子探测器量子效率,搭建了基于自发参量下转换效应的测量系统.系统利用中心波长为518nm的脉冲激光泵浦周期极化磷酸氧钛钾晶体,通过自发参量下转换过程产生相关光子对,分别测量了Si和InGaAs雪崩光电二极管单光子探测器在778nm和1 550nm波长点的量子效率,并对测量不确定度进行了分析.实验表明,该装置可以测量近红外单光子探测器量子效率参量,测量不确定度均优于1%.     

六光子超纠缠态制备方案

自发参量下转换对应于一种非线性光学过程, 实验上作为一种标准方法, 人们利用自发参量下转换源产生纠缠光子对. 本文考虑由自发参量下转换源产生三对纠缠光子的情况. 通过使用由几组偏振光 束分束器、分束器和半波片等线性光学器件组成的量子线路演化三对光子, 给出了一个高效制备 包含偏振纠缠和空间纠缠的六光子超纠缠态方案. 因为方案中包含了参量下转换源产生三对纠缠光子 的所有可能情况, 所以本方案有很高的效率. 基于弱非线性介质构建了一个量子非破坏性测量装置, 用于区分光子在两指定的空间模中的两种分布情况. 特别地, 方案中可以通过合理约束在量子非破坏性测量过程中引入的非线性强度来达到实际实验所限定的数量级, 因此, 该方案易于在实验上实现.     

光子晶体光纤在量子信息上的应用

先简单介绍光子晶体光纤相对于普通光纤的特点,然后重点阐述光子晶体光纤在量子信息上应用的优势。与其它方法,如基于非线性晶体自发参量下转换方法相比,利用光子晶体光纤能更有效地产生纠缠光子,并能与现有光纤传输系统良好兼容,从而表现出其在量子信息领域内的优越性及巨大的应用潜力。最后简要展望了光子晶体光纤在量子信息领域内的前景。     

光子晶体光纤在量子信息上的应用

先简单介绍光子晶体光纤相对于普通光纤的特点,然后重点阐述光子晶体光纤在量子信息上应用的优势.与其它方法,如基于非线性晶体自发参量下转换方法相比,利用光子晶体光纤能更有效地产生纠缠光子,并能与现有光纤传输系统良好兼容,从而表现出其在量子信息领域内的优越性及巨大的应用潜力.最后简要展望了光子晶体光纤在量子信息领域内的前景.     

脉冲激光作用下的量子定位实验方案的设计及分析

基于量子相干和量子空间定位的原理,设计了量子空间定位的实验方案.讨论了在脉冲激光作用下,由第二类自发参量下转换所产生的纠缠光子对的光谱特征、对应的相干函数特点以及对量子定位的影响.结果表明,随着激光脉冲宽度的增加,纠缠光子对的相干性减小,量子定位的测量准确度降低.     

利用SPDC和PBS实现受控非门的有效方案

任意一个N量子比特逻辑运算可以由一系列单量子比特门和受控非门实现[1].因此,这两种量子逻辑门的实现是研究量子计算自然的目标.虽然单量子比特门易于实现,但是由于光子间的相互作用比较弱,所以很难实现受控非门的操作.本文基于T.B.Pittman[2]与A.L. Migdall[3]等人的工作,提出了利用自发参量下转换(SPDC)过程采用多点延时探测触发的方法获得高效单光子源,提高实现受控非门效率的理论方案.     

脉冲激光作用下的量子定位实验方案的设计及分析

基于量子相干和量子空间定位的原理,设计了量子空间定位的实验方案.讨论了在脉冲激光作用下,由第二类自发参量下转换所产生的纠缠光子对的光谱特征、对应的相干函数特点以及对量子定位的影响.结果表明,随着激光脉冲宽度的增加,纠缠光子对的相干性减小,量子定位的测量准确度降低.     

自发参量下转换机理及应用研究综述

自发参量下转换(spontaneous param etric down-conversion,SPDC)光场是一种非经典光场,它是由单色泵浦光子流和量子真空噪声对非线性晶体的综合作用而产生的。基于量子理论解释了SPDC光场的产生机理,说明从经典理论如何理解SPDC光场。较全面介绍了SPDC光场的非经典特性及在激光技术、遥感、量子通讯等领域的应用研究进展,展望了它应用研究的发展方向与前景。     

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.     

Hybrid Wavelength and Code Division Multiple Access in Optical Networks

A review of schemes for multiple access in fiber optic networks shows that a hybrid of wavelength and code division multiple access (WCDMA) combines the best features of both. In particular, the hybrid scheme retains the large information carrying capacity of wavelength division multiple access (WDMA) and flexibility of code division multiple access (CDMA). In this paper WDMA, optical CDMA (OCDMA), and WCDMA networks are discussed. In OCDMA networks, concept of incoherent and coherent coding including inverse decoding and matched filter is introduced. The delay performance of both WDMA and WCDMA networks, under the simple suboptimum access protocols based on cyclic search, is computed. It has been shown quantitatively that tuning delay significantly affects the delay performance of both WDMA and WCDMA networks. Futhermore, delay performance of WCDMA networks is always better than the WDMA networks for the same tuning delay, load, and number of users.     

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.     

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.     

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.     

Measurement of nonlinear coefficient of optical fiber based on small chirped soliton transmission

We measure the waveform and phase curves of short optical pulses before and after transmission over different lengths of fibers by use of the pulse analyzer with the frequency-resolved optical gating (FROG),and numerically simulate pulse evolution under the experimental conditions.The nonlinear coefficient of the fiber is given by comparing the experimental results with the numerical ones.Difference between the experiment and numerical simulation is analyzed.     

Resonance scattering of canonical elastic shells in absorbing fluid medium

Resonance scattering of elastic spherical shell and cylindrical shell while the surrounding fluid medium has absorption is studied. The normal mode solution derived using exact elastic theory and the separation of variables is still applicable. However, the scattering form function has to be modified for the absorbing medium, otherwise the unreasonable result would be obtained. The backscattering form function in the absorbing medium is redefined, and the form function of elastic spherical and cylindrical shell with vacuum or solid matter filled is calculated in various absorption conditions. The results show that the absorption of surrounding fluid leads to notable attenuation of the coincidence resonances in the mid-frequency, but it has a little influence on the low-frequency resonance scattering induced by the filler inside the shell.     

Single-beam self-referenced phase-sensitive surface plasmon resonance sensor with high detection resolution

A versatile and low-cost single-beam self-referenced phase-sensitive surface plasmon resonance(SPR)sensing system with ultra-high resolution performance is presented.The system exhibits a root-mean-square phase fluctuation of ±0.0028.over a period of 45 min.i.e.a resolution of±5.2×10-9 refractive index units.The enhanced performance has been achieved through the incorporation of three design elements:a true single-beam configuration enabling complete self-referencing so that only the phase change associated with SPR gets detected,a differential measurement scheme to eliminate spurious signals not related to the sensor response,and the elimination of retardation drifts by incorporating temperature stabilization in the liquid crystal phase modulato .Our design should bring the detection sensitivity of non-labeling SPR biosensing closer to that achievable by conventional fluorescence-based techniques.     

Influences of SiO2 protective layers and annealing on the laser-induced damage threshold of Ta2O5 films

Ta2O5 films are prepared on BK7 substrates with conventional electron beam evaporation deposition.The effects of SiO2 protective layers and annealing on the laser-induced damage threshold (LIDT) of the films are investigated.The results show that SiO2 protective layers exert little influence on the electric field intensity(EFI)distribution,microstructure and microdefect density but increase the absorption slightly.Annealing iS effective on decreasing the microdefect density and the absorption of the films.Both SiO2 protective layers and annealing are beneficial to the damage resistance of the films and the latter is more effective to improve the LIDT.Moreover,the maximal LIDT of Ta2O5 films is achieved by the combination of SiO2 protective layers and annealing.