Two-mode squeezed light source for quantum illumination and quantum imaging

Genta Masada

doi:10.1117/12.2187670

1 September 2015 Two-mode squeezed light source for quantum illumination and quantum imaging

Genta Masada

Proceedings Volume 9615, Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging XIII; 961503 (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187670
Event: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications, 2015, San Diego, California, United States

Abstract

We started to research quantum illumination radar and quantum imaging by utilizing high quality continuous-wave two-mode squeezed light source as a quantum entanglement resource. Two-mode squeezed light is a macroscopic quantum entangled state of the electro-magnetic field and shows strong correlation between quadrature phase amplitudes of each optical field. One of the most effective methods to generate two-mode squeezed light is combining two independent single-mode squeezed lights by using a beam splitter with relative phase of 90 degrees between each optical field. As a first stage of our work we are developing two-mode squeezed light source for exploring the possibility of quantum illumination radar and quantum imaging. In this article we introduce current development of experimental investigation of single-mode squeezed light. We utilize a sub-threshold optical parametric oscillator with bow-tie configuration which includes a periodically-polled potassium titanyl phosphate crystal as a nonlinear optical medium. We observed the noise level of squeezed quadrature −3.08±0.13 dB and anti-squeezed quadrature at 9.29±0.13 dB, respectively. We also demonstrated the remote tuning of squeezing level of the light source which leads to the technology for tuning the quantum entanglement in order to adapt to the actual environmental condition.

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Genta Masada "Two-mode squeezed light source for quantum illumination and quantum imaging", Proc. SPIE 9615, Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging XIII, 961503 (1 September 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2187670

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