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A balanced homodyne detector and local oscillator shaping for measuring optical Schrödinger cat states

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Author(s)

Thomas Gerrits, Scott C. Glancy, Sae Woo Nam

Abstract

We present our implementation of an optical homodyne detector used to measure optical Schrödinger cat states. We show how we minimized the losses and mode-mismatches associated with homodyne detection, which become important when measuring non-classical states of light. We present a pulse shaping scheme applied to the local oscillator to improve its temporal mode overlap with the non-classical state.
Proceedings Title
SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing 2011
Volume
8033
Conference Dates
April 25-29, 2011
Conference Location
Orlando, FL
Pub Type
Conferences

Download Paper

https://doi.org/10.1117/12.885486

Keywords

homodyne detection, optical Schrödinger cat states, squeezed vacuum
Physics and Quantum information science

Citation

Gerrits, T. , Glancy, S. and Nam, S. (2011), A balanced homodyne detector and local oscillator shaping for measuring optical Schrödinger cat states, SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing 2011, Orlando, FL, [online], https://doi.org/10.1117/12.885486 (Accessed April 25, 2024)

Created May 12, 2011, Updated November 10, 2018