Entanglement of movable mirror and cavity field enhanced by an optical parametric amplifier

A scheme to generate entanglement in a cavity optomechanical system filled with an optical parametric amplifier is proposed. With the help of the optical parametric amplifier, the stationary macroscopic entanglement between the movable mirror and the cavity field can be notably enhanced, and the entanglement increases when the parametric gain increases.Moreover, for a given parametric gain, the degree of entanglement of the cavity optomechanical system increases with increasing input laser power.

High-Stability High-Energy Picosecond Optical Parametric Chirped Pulse Amplifier as a Preamplifier in Nd：Glass Petawatt System for Contrast Enhancement

We demonstrate a novel picosecond optical parametric preamplification to generate high-stability, high-energy and high-contrast seed pulses. The 5ps seed pulse is amplified from 60pJ to 300μJ with an 8.6ps/ 3mJ pump laser in a signal stage of short pulse non-collinear optical parametric chirped pulse amplification. The total gain is more than 106 and the rms energy stability is under 1.35%. The contrast ratio is higher than 10s within a scale of 20ps before the main pulse. Consequently, the improvement factor of the signal contrast is approximately equal to the gain 106 outside the pump window.

Amplification of fluorescence using collinear picosecond optical parametric amplification at degeneracy

We demonstrate the output characteristic of broadband parametric amplification of incoherent light pulses in a 355-nm pumped degenerate picosecond optical parametric amplification with either saturated or unsaturated amplification. The optical parametric amplifier is seeded by the fluorescence generated in a solution of pyridine-1 dye in ethanol. With the saturated amplification, we can obtain high energy incoherent light pulses, whose full width at half maximum bandwidth varies from 16 nm to 53 nm for the different phase matching angles near degeneracy. Moreover, the unsaturated bandwidth of the amplified pulses fits well to the calculated result at degeneracy. Selecting s-polarized fluorescence with a Glan-Taylor prism, the maximum bandwidth of the amplified fluorescence is found to be 59 nm for a purely s-polarized seed. The maximum output energy is 0.67 mJ for the optical parametric amplifier. By using an optical filter and compressor, the generated high energy incoherent light has great potential as the incoherent pump, signal or idler wave of a parametric down-conversion process, so that a wave with a high degree of coherence can be generated from an incoherent pump light.

Effect of the dispersion on multipartite continuous-variable entanglement in optical parametric amplifier

Based on the quantum fluctuations, we adopt the method of generalized V1 criterion to investigate multipartite entan- glement characteristics in an optical parametric amplification system with the consideration of dispersion. The nonlinear interaction becomes strong because of the existence of dispersion coefficient σ. Considering the influence of dispersion factor σ, with increasing the pump parameter μ, the value of minimum variance V1 decreases and the squeezing curve nearly equals 1/（1 ＋ μ）. The larger particle number N results in a smaller variance and higher entanglement.

Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entanglement in time-dependent periodic pumping non-degenerate optical parametric amplifier

The solution of the time-dependent periodic pumping non-degenerate optical parametric amplifier （NOPA） is derived when the pump depletion is considered both above and below thresholds. Based on this solution, the quantum fluctuation calculated shows that a high entanglement and a good squeezing degree of the parametric light beams are achieved near and above thresholds. We adopt two kinds of pump fields： （i） a continuously modulated pump with a sinusoidal envelope; （ii） a sequence of laser pulses with Gaussian envelopes. We analyse the time evolution of continuous variable entanglement by analytical and numerical calculations, and show that the periodic driven pumping also improves the degree of entanglement. The squeezing and Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen （EPR） entanglement by using the two pumping driven functions are investigated from below to above the threshold regions, the tendencies are nearly the same, and the Caussian driven function is superior to that of the sine driven function, when the maximum squeezing and the minimum variance of quantum fluctuation are considered. In the meantime, the generalization of frequency degenerate OPA to frequency non-degenerated OPA problem is investigated.

Generation of broadly tunable picosecond mid-infrared laser and sensitive detection of a mid-infrared signal by parametric frequency up-conversion in MgO:LiNbO_3 optical parametric amplifiers

Picosecond optical parametric generation and amplification in the near-infrared region within 1.361-1.656 μm and the mid-infrared region within 2.976-4.875 μm is constructed on the basis of bulk MgO：LiNbO 3 crystals pumped at 1.064 μm.The maximum pulse energy reaches 1.3 mJ at 1.464 μm and 0.47 mJ at 3.894 μm,corresponding to a pumpto-idler photon conversion efficiency of 25%.By seeding the hard-to-measure mid-infrared radiation as the idler in the optical parametric amplification and measuring the amplified and frequency up-converted signal in the near-infrared or even visible region,one can measure very week mid-infrared radiation with ordinary detectors,which are insensitive to mid-infrared radiation,with a very high gain.A maximum gain factor of about 7 脳 10 7 is achieved at the mid-infrared wavelength of 3.374 μm and the corresponding energy detection limit is as low as about 390 aJ per pulse.

Gain Characteristics of Fiber Optical Parametric Amplifier

The theory model of fiber optical parametric amplifier (FOPA) was introduced, which is based on optical nonlinear effect. And then numerical simulation was done to analyze and discuss the gain spectral characteristics of one-pump and two-pump FOPA. The results show that for one-pump FOPA, when pump wavelength is near to fiber zero-dispersion wavelength(ZDW), the gain flatness is better, and with the increase of the pump power, fiber length and its nonlinear coefficient, the gain value will increase while the gain bandwidth will become narrow. For two-pump FOPA, when the pump central wavelength is near to fiber ZDW, the gain flatness is better. Moreover, by decreasing the space of two pumps wavelength, the gain flatness can be improved. Finally, some problems existing in FOPA were addressed.

The influence of stimulated temperature-dependent emission cross section on intracavity optical parametric oscillator

In this paper, the influence of temperature on the intracavity optical parametric oscillator（IOPO） is investigated by using the stimulated temperature-dependent emission cross section of laser crystal. The rate equations under plane wave approximation have been used for simulation of signal output pulse. Results show that the signal output pulse width is decreased by increasing the laser crystal temperature. Also, the signal output energy is increased by the increasing of the laser crystal temperature. The simulation results for IOPO based on Nd：YAG and Nd：YVO_4, show that the signal pulse energies are increased by 3.2 and 5.6 times respectively when the laser crystal temperature increased from 15℃ to 300℃. The presented model indicates that the temperature sensitivity of Nd：YVO_4-based IOPOs is more than that of Nd：YAG-based IOPOs which is expected from a physical point of view.

High-Energy Tunable 6.5-12 μm Picosecond Mid-Infrared Radiation Generated from Optical Parametric Amplifier Based on LiInSe_(2) Crystal

We report high-energy tunable 6.5-12 μm ps mid-infrared radiation generation based on OPA pumped using 1064 nm laser in LISe crystal.We simulated the relationship between the idler energy and crystal length.An optimum LISe length of 4 mm was used to enhance the idler energy experimentally.At a pump energy of ~9.4 mJ, energy levels of ~146 and of ~27 μJ are generated at 6.5 μm and 12 μm, respectively.The highest energy of ~205 μJ is achieved at 8.1 μm at a pump energy of ~19 mJ.Finally, the angular and spectral width acceptance are measured.

Tunable phase-stabilized infrared parametric laser source

This paper reports that the tunable self-phase-stabilized infrared laser pulses have been generated from a two- stage optical parametric amplifier. With an 800 nm pump source, the output idler pulses are tunable from 1.3 μm to 2.3 μm, and the maximum output energy of the idler pulses is higher than I mJ at 1.6 μm by using 6 mJ pump laser. A carrier-envelope phase fluctuation of -0.15 rad （rms） for the idler pulses is measured for longer than one hour by using a home build f-to-2f interferometer.

High-efficiency bismuth borate-based optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier with approximately 2.1 mJ,38 fs output pulses at approximately 2150 nm

We present a compact and cost-effective mJ-level femtosecond laser system operating at a center wavelength of approximately 2.15μm.An affordable two-stage ytterbium-doped yttrium aluminum garnet(Yb:YAG)chirped pulse amplifier provides more than 10 mJ,approximately 1.2 ps pulses at 1030 nm to pump a three-stage optical parametric chirped pulse amplifier(OPCPA)based on bismuth borate crystals and to drive the supercontinuum seed in the YAG crystal.The energy of the amplified pulses in the wavelength range of 1.95–2.4μm reached 2.25 mJ with a pump-tosignal conversion efficiency of approximately 25%in the last OPCPA stage.These pulses were compressed to 38 fs in a pair of Suprasil 300 glass prisms.

Ultrafast Energy Transfer in Artificial Antenna Molecule Measured by Transient Fluorescence Spectroscopy

We have reported previously the ultrafast energy transfer process with a time constant of 0.8 ps from a monomeric to a dimeric subunit within a perylenetetracarboxylic diimide trimer, which was derived indirectly from a model fitting into the transient absorption experimental data. Here we present a direct ultrafast fluorescence quenching measurement by employing fs time-resolved transient fluorescence spectroscopy based on noncollinear optical parametric amplification technique. The rapid decay of the monomer＇s emission due to energy transfer was observed directly with a time constant of about 0.82 ps, in good agreement with the previous result.

Femtosecond laser user facility for application research on ultrafast science

The advent of chirped-pulse amplification （CPA） has greatly advanced the field of ultrafast and ultra-intense laser technology. CPA has become an indispensable platform for multidisciplinary research, such as physics, chemistry, life sciences, and precision metrology. The femtosecond laser facility at the Synergic Extreme Condition User Facility （SECUF） is a comprehensive experimental platform with an advanced femtosecond laser source for ultrafast scientific research. It will provide an ultrafast scientific research system having a few-cycle pulse duration, wide spectral range, high energy, and high repetition rate for multipurpose applications.

Generation of ultrafast radially polarized pulses through chirp-assisted femtosecond optical parametric amplification

Radially polarized beams characterized by an axially symmetric polarization distribution can be sharply focused to produce strong longitudinal fields in the vicinity.Future applications of these beams will be facilitated by the availability of higher powers and shorter durations.Currently,the ultrafast radially polarized pulse is typically generated via wavefront reconstruction from conventional linearly polarized states.Achievable pulse duration and intensity limits are strictly dependent on extra-cavity optics.Herein,a chirp-assisted near-degenerate type-II parametric process is presented as a pulse-energy-scalable method of accessing ultrafast radially polarized pulses.In a proof-of-principle experiment,the broadband gain balance between the orthogonally polarized signal components was realized via controlling the chirp of the pump pulse.Through an analogous pulseduration transfer effect,the radially polarized signal inherited the temporal and spectral characteristics of the pump pulse and maintained the radial polarization state of each frequency component of the signal.With a shorter pump pulse,the generation of few-cycle radially polarized pulses should be achievable,which may facilitate a wide range of ultrafast applications such as vacuum electron acceleration and high-harmonic generation.

Fiber-based optical parametric amplifier for 40-Gb/s NRZ-DPSK signal transmission system employing QC-LDPC codes

In this letter, we investigate quasi-cyclic low-density parity-check （QC-LDPC） codes in a 40-Gb/s nonreturn-to-zero differential phase-shift keying （NRZ-DPSK） signal transmission system based on a fiber- based optical parametric amplifier （FOPA）. A constructed algorithm of QC-LDPC codes according to the optimizing set of shift vMues on the circulant permutation matrix （CPM） of the basis matrix is proposed. Simulation results prove that the coding gain in the encoded system can be realized at 10.2 dB under QC- LDPC codes with a code rate of 5/6 when the bit error rate （BER） is 10-9. In addition, the error-floor level originating from the uncoded system is suppressed.

Controllable optical multistability in hybrid optomechanical system assisted by parametric interactions

We theoretically investigate the multistable behavior of a hybrid optomechanical system, in which a charged mechanical resonator is coupled via Coulomb interaction to an optomechanical cavity containing an optical parametric amplifier （OPA）. It is shown that the multistable behavior of the mean intracavity photon number can be controlled flexibly by adjusting the nonlinear gain parameter of the OPA, the phase of the field pumping the OPA, the power and frequency of the field driving the cavity, and the Coulomb coupling strength between the two charged mechanical resonators. In particular, the increase of the nonlinear gain parameter can result in a transition from bistability to tristability. Moreover, the effect of the Coulomb coupling strength on the bistable behavior of the steady-state positions of the two mechanical resonators is discussed.

Generation of squeezed TEM_(01) modes with periodically poled KTiOPO_4 crystal

Spatial quantum optics and quantum information based on the high order transverse mode are of importance for the super-resolution measurement beyond the quantum noise level. We demonstrated experimentally the transverse plane TEM01 Hermite Gauss quantum squeezing. The squeezed TEM01 mode is generated in a degenerate optical parametric amplifier with the nonlinear crystal of periodically poled KTiOPO4. The level of 2.2-dB squeezing is measured using a spatial balance homodyne detection system.

Generation of a squeezed state at 1.55 μm with periodically poled LiNbO_3

We report on the generation of a squeezing vacuum at 1.55 μm using an optical parametric amplifier based on periodically poled LiNbO 3.Using three specifically designed narrow linewidth mode cleaners as the spatial mode and noise filter of the laser at 1.55 μm and 775 nm,the squeezed vacuum of up to 3.0 dB below the shot noise level at 1.55 μm is experimentally obtained.This system is compatible with standard telecommunication optical fibers,and will be useful for continuous variable long-distance quantum communication and distributed quantum computing.

Frequency up-conversion imaging with 60-dB gain using picosecond optical parametric amplifier

A weak infrared （IR） image amplifier with more than 60-dB optical gain and is developed from a picosecond （PS） 355-nm pumped gated optical parametric frequency up-conversion amplifier （OPA） in a/% BaB204 （BBO） crystal. The IR image at 1064 nm is amplified and up-converted into the visible region at 532 nm by parametric amplification and up-conversion. With the optimized optical gain, the lowest detectable energy of the image can be as low as 1.8 femto-Joule per pulse, which is three orders of magnitude lower than the detection limit of a charge-coupled device （CCD） camera. The transversal resolution of the OPA imaging is investigated, and the approaches for higher detection sensitivity and higher transversal resolution are proposed.

Generation of entangled TEM_(01) modes with periodically poled KTiOPO_4 crystal

Spatial quantum optics based on the high-order transverse mode is important for the super-resolution measurement and quantum image beyond the shot noise level. Quantum entanglement of the transverse plane Hermite–Gauss TEM（01） mode has been demonstrated experimentally in this paper. Two squeezed TEM（01） modes, which are generated by a pair of degenerate optical parametric amplifiers（DOPA） with the nonlinear crystals of periodically poled KTi OPO4, have been combined to produce TEM（01） mode entanglement using a beam splitter. The 1.5 dB for the sum of amplitude and 1.2 dB for the difference of phase below shot-noise level is achieved with the measurement system of a Bell state detection.