Brecht, Benjamin: Engineering ultrafast quantum frequency conversion. 2014
Inhalt
- 1 Summary
- 2 Zusammenfassung
- 3 A brief history of ultrafast quantum optics
- 4 Fundamental theory
- 5 From classical to quantum optics
- Speaking quantum
- Understanding quantum
- Engineering quantum
- Time-ordering
- 6 Ultrafast parametric down-conversion
- Continuous variable description
- Chronocyclic representation of PDC states
- On the correlation time of ultrafast biphotons
- Theory put to test
- 7 Quantum pulse gate and quantum pulse shaper
- Quantum pulse gate
- The QPG unitary operation
- Adding an input state
- Revealing the QPG TF structure
- Optimising the QPG TF modes
- Experimental limitations
- Quantitative Hamiltonian
- Experiment
- Pulse shaping with the Dazzler
- Overview over the setup
- Spatial mode adaption
- Mapping of the QPG time-frequency modes
- Adapting the QPG TF modes to an unknown input
- Performance benchmarks
- Next steps: Quantum pulse shaper
- 8 Conclusion and outlook
- 9 Acknowledgements
- A Appendix
- Derivation of the vectorial wave equations in waveguides
- Calculation of the electric field strength
- The dielectric tensor
- Kleinman symmetry
- Nonlinear tensor and contracted notation
- Lithium niobate and potassium titanyl phosphate
- Three-wave mixing Hamiltonian
- 4-f-spectrometer with tilted slit
- B References