A balanced homodyne detector and local oscillator shaping for measuring optical Schrödinger cat states

T. Gerrits; S. Glancy; S. W. Nam

doi:10.1117/12.885486

13 May 2011 A balanced homodyne detector and local oscillator shaping for measuring optical Schrödinger cat states

T. Gerrits, S. Glancy, S. W. Nam

Proceedings Volume 8033, Advanced Photon Counting Techniques V; 80330X (2011) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.885486
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2011, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

We present our implementation of an optical homodyne detector used to measure optical Schrödinger cat states. We show how we minimized the losses and mode-mismatches associated with homodyne detection, which become important when measuring non-classical states of light. We present a pulse-shaping scheme applied to the local oscillator to improve its temporal mode overlap with the non-classical state.

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T. Gerrits, S. Glancy, and S. W. Nam "A balanced homodyne detector and local oscillator shaping for measuring optical Schrödinger cat states", Proc. SPIE 8033, Advanced Photon Counting Techniques V, 80330X (13 May 2011); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.885486

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