Reconstruction of a multimode entangled state using a two-photon phase-sensitive linear amplifier

Journal Article · Tue Apr 01 04:00:00 EST 2003 · Physical Review. A

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.67.043815· OSTI ID:20634033

Ahmad, Mashhood ^[1]; Qamar, Shahid ^[2]; Zubairy, M Suhail ^[1]

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1. Department of Electronics, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad (Pakistan)
2. Institute for Quantum Studies and Department of Physics, Texas A and M University, College Station, Texas 77843-4242 (United States)

We propose a model for the measurement of an arbitrary multimode entangled state of the cavity field using two-photon correlated emission laser. We consider two cases: (a) The modes have different frequencies and are detected separately and (b) the modes consist of two orthogonal polarization states and are detected using a single balanced homodyne detector. The basic idea is to amplify the initial multimode state such that there is no-noise in the quadrature of interest and all the noise is fed into the conjugate quadrature component. The amplified noise-free quadrature is prepared in different phases and then corresponding quadrature distribution is measured. The Wigner function of the initial multimode entangled state is then reconstructed by using inverse Radon transformation. This scheme is insensitive to the noise associated with the nonunit efficiency of the detector in the homodyne detection measurement scheme.

• OSTI ID: 20634033
• Journal Information: Physical Review. A, Journal Name: Physical Review. A Journal Issue: 4 Vol. 67; ISSN 1050-2947; ISSN PLRAAN
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

74 ATOMIC AND MOLECULAR PHYSICS
AMPLIFIERS
DETECTION
DISTRIBUTION
EFFICIENCY
LASER RADIATION
LASERS
MULTI-PHOTON PROCESSES
NOISE
PHOTON EMISSION
PHOTONS
POLARIZATION
QUADRATURES
TRANSFORMATIONS