Harmonics-assisted optical phase amplifier

Wu-Zhen Li; Chen Yang; Zhi-Yuan Zhou; Yan Li; Yin-Hai Li; Su-Jian Niu; Zheng Ge; Li Chen; Guang-Can Guo; Bao-Sen Shi

doi:10.1038/s41377-022-01003-3

Go to Nature Website

Your Location：

Home >

Browse articles >

Harmonics-assisted optical phase amplifier

Original Articles

- Harmonics-assisted optical phase amplifier
- Light: Science & Applications Vol. 11, Issue 11, Pages: 2748-2754(2022)
- Affiliations：
  
  1.CAS Key Laboratory of Quantum Information, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui 230026, China
  2.CAS Center for Excellence in Quantum Information and Quantum Physics, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230026, China
  3.Hefei National Laboratory, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei 230088, China
- Author bio：
  
  Zhi-Yuan Zhou (zyzhouphy@ustc.edu.cn)
  Bao-Sen Shi (drshi@ustc.edu.cn)
- Funds：
- DOI：10.1038/s41377-022-01003-3
  CLC：
- Published：30 November 2022，
  
  Published Online：27 October 2022，
  
  Received：15 March 2022，
  
  Revised：30 September 2022，
  
  Accepted：07 October 2022
- Accepted：
Scan QR Code
Li, W. Z. et al. Harmonics-assisted optical phase amplifier. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 2748-2754 (2022).
DOI：

Li, W. Z. et al. Harmonics-assisted optical phase amplifier. Light: Science & Applications, 11, 2748-2754 (2022). DOI： 10.1038/s41377-022-01003-3.

摘要

Abstract

The change in the relative phase between two light fields serves as a basic principle for the measurement of the physical quantity that guides this change. It would therefore be highly advantageous if the relative phase could be amplified to enhance the measurement resolution. One well-known method for phase amplification involves the use of the multi-photon number and path-entangled state known as the NOON state; however

a high-number NOON state is very difficult to prepare and is highly sensitive to optical losses. Here we propose and experimentally demonstrate in principle a phase amplifier scheme with the assistance of a harmonic generation process. The relative phase difference between two polarization modes in a polarized interferometer is amplified coherently four times with cascaded second-harmonic generation processes. We demonstrate that these amplification processes can be recycled and therefore have the potential to realize much higher numbers of multiple amplification steps. The phase amplification method presented here shows considerable advantages over the method based on NOON states and will be highly promising for use in precision optical measurements.

关键词

Keywords

references

V. Giovannetti , S. Lloyd , L. Maccone . Quantum-enhanced measurements: beating the standard quantum limit . Science , 2004 . 306 1330 -1336 . DOI:10.1126/science.1104149http://doi.org/10.1126/science.1104149 .

Thompson, A. R., Moran, J. M. & Swenson, G. W. Jr. Interferometry and Synthesis in Radio Astronomy. 3rd edn. (Cham: Springer, 2017).

Saulson, P. R. Fundamentals of Interferometric Gravitational Wave Detectors. (River Edge: World Scientific, 1994).

Williams, D. C. Optical Methods in Engineering Metrology. (Dordrecht: Springer Science & Business Media, 2012).

Nolte, D. D. Optical Interferometry for Biology and Medicine. (New York: Springer Science & Business Media, 2012).

Brezinski, M. E. Optical Coherence Tomography: Principles and Applications (Amsterdam: Academic Press, 2006).

J. Jacobson , 等 . Photonic de broglie waves . Phys. Rev. Lett. , 1995 . 74 4835 -4838 . DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.4835http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.74.4835 .

X. L. Wang , 等 . Experimental ten-photon entanglement . Phys. Rev. Lett. , 2016 . 117 210502 DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.210502http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.117.210502 .

P. Kumar . Quantum frequency conversion . Opt. Lett. , 1990 . 15 1476 -1478 . DOI:10.1364/OL.15.001476http://doi.org/10.1364/OL.15.001476 .

Z. Y. Zhou , 等 . Orbital angular momentum light frequency conversion and interference with quasi-phase matching crystals . Opt. Express , 2014 . 22 20298 -20310 . DOI:10.1364/OE.22.020298http://doi.org/10.1364/OE.22.020298 .

C. Yang , 等 . Nonlinear frequency conversion and manipulation of vector beams in a Sagnac loop . Opt. Lett. , 2019 . 44 219 -222 . DOI:10.1364/OL.44.000219http://doi.org/10.1364/OL.44.000219 .

H. G. Liu , 等 . Nonlinear frequency conversion and manipulation of vector beams . Opt. Lett. , 2018 . 43 5981 -5984 . DOI:10.1364/OL.43.005981http://doi.org/10.1364/OL.43.005981 .

C. S. Tian , Y. R. Shen . Recent progress on sum-frequency spectroscopy . Surf. Sci. Rep. , 2014 . 69 105 -131 . DOI:10.1016/j.surfrep.2014.05.001http://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfrep.2014.05.001 .

M. V. Chekhova , Z. Y. Ou . Nonlinear interferometers in quantum optics . Adv. Opt. Photonics , 2016 . 8 104 -155 . DOI:10.1364/AOP.8.000104http://doi.org/10.1364/AOP.8.000104 .

B. P. Abbott , 等 . Observation of gravitational waves from a binary black hole merger . Phys. Rev. Lett. , 2016 . 116 061102 DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.116.061102 .

A. T. Meek , 等 . Real-time imaging of cellular forces using optical interference . Nat. Commun. , 2021 . 12 3552 DOI:10.1038/s41467-021-23734-4http://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23734-4 .

Y. Y. Lv , 等 . High-harmonic generation in Weyl semimetal β-WP2 crystals . Nat. Commun. , 2021 . 12 6437 DOI:10.1038/s41467-021-26766-yhttp://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26766-y .

S. Ghimire , 等 . Observation of high-order harmonic generation in a bulk crystal . Nat. Phys. , 2011 . 7 138 -141 . DOI:10.1038/nphys1847http://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1847 .

C. Aparajit , 等 . Efficient second-harmonic generation of a high-energy, femtosecond laser pulse in a lithium triborate crystal . Opt. Lett. , 2021 . 46 3540 -3543 . DOI:10.1364/OL.423725http://doi.org/10.1364/OL.423725 .

R. T. Murray , 等 . Highly efficient mid-infrared difference-frequency generation using synchronously pulsed fiber lasers . Opt. Lett. , 2016 . 41 2446 -2449 . DOI:10.1364/OL.41.002446http://doi.org/10.1364/OL.41.002446 .

M. W. Mitchell , J. S. Lundeen , A. M. Steinberg . Super-resolving phase measurements with a multiphoton entangled state . Nature , 2004 . 429 161 -164 . DOI:10.1038/nature02493http://doi.org/10.1038/nature02493 .

P. Walther , 等 . De Broglie wavelength of a non-local four-photon state . Nature , 2004 . 429 158 -161 . DOI:10.1038/nature02552http://doi.org/10.1038/nature02552 .

A. Luis . Nonlinear transformations and the Heisenberg limit . Phys. Lett. A , 2004 . 329 8 -13 . DOI:10.1016/j.physleta.2004.06.080http://doi.org/10.1016/j.physleta.2004.06.080 .

L. Pezzé , A. Smerzi . Entanglement, nonlinear dynamics, and the heisenberg limit . Phys. Rev. Lett. , 2009 . 102 100401 DOI:10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.100401http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.100401 .

J. Cheng . Quantum metrology for simultaneously estimating the linear and nonlinear phase shifts . Phys. Rev. A , 2014 . 90 063838 DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.90.063838http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.90.063838 .

G. F. Jiao , 等 . Nonlinear phase estimation enhanced by an actively correlated Mach-Zehnder interferometer . Phys. Rev. A , 2020 . 102 033520 DOI:10.1103/PhysRevA.102.033520http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.102.033520 .

Views

Downloads

CSCD

Alert me when the article has been cited

Submit

Tools

Publicity Resources

No data

Related Author

No data

Related Institution

No data

⁰