Quantum Input-Output Modeling in the Ultra-Fast Domain: Theoretical Foundations and Experimental Validation

超快域中的量子输入输出建模：理论基础和实验验证

• 批准号: 2011363
• 负责人: Hideo Mabuchi
• 金额: $ 81.42万
• 依托单位: Stanford University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-15 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2011363&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Quantum; Input; Output; Modeling; Ultra

The primary aims of this project are to develop new theory and new laboratory tools for analyzing the quantum-mechanical properties of ultrafast (very short) pulses of light. The project will push beyond familiar conditions, which is largely limited to long timescales and slowly-varying patterns of light (optical modes). The advances made will support future quantum engineering efforts to utilize ultrafast light pulses for computing, communication, and sensing. In the context of quantum technology, ultrafast quantum light may be expected to provide advantages over slowly-varying light by increasing the speed of computation, the rate at which information can be transmitted through a communication channel, or the bandwidth (response speed) of a sensor. The major themes of the project are the exploration of practical approaches to generating ultrafast light pulses with manifestly quantum properties (distinguished from conventional light pulses, for example, by exhibiting extremely low noise), the improvement of methods for analyzing quantum entanglement among ultrafast light pulses, and the development of a new class of laser-like optical devices called ultrafast optical parametric oscillators, which are of great interest to a broad spectrum of engineering research for potential use in future quantum technologies.Technically speaking, the theoretical component of this project is structured around concrete studies of new device concepts for nanophotonic devices and circuits to generate and manipulate few-photon states of ultrafast optical pulses with non-Gaussian quantum states. The work will address fundamental issues in the modeling of quantum nonlinearities in nanophotonic devices with ultrafast pump and signal fields, motivated by applications such as the synthesis of cubic phase gates (for quantum computing) and realizing ultrafast optical parametric oscillators with pump thresholds in the few-photon regime. The latter devices are expected to require significant advances in efficiently modeling the quantum dynamics of optical systems with many (tens of thousands) of relevant optical modes. The experimental component of this project aims at the development and validation of measurement methods for characterizing time-domain entanglement among signal pulses in synchronously-pumped optical parametric oscillators, which is expected to develop strong connections with concepts from condensed matter physics (such as tensor network states). The experimental component will also include further work on a prototype synchronously-pumped optical parametric oscillator in which coherent feedback is utilized to establish programmable structures of entanglement across the output pulse train.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该项目的主要目的是开发新的理论和新的实验室工具，用于分析光（非常短）光的量子力学特性。 该项目将超越熟悉的条件，该条件在很大程度上仅限于长时间尺度和光线变化的光（光学模式）。 取得的进步将支持未来的量子工程努力，以利用超快速脉冲进行计算，通信和感测。 在量子技术的背景下，可以通过提高计算速度，可以通过通信通道或传感器的带宽（响应速度）传输信息的速度，预计超快量子光可以提供优于缓慢变化的光的优势。 该项目的主要主题是探索具有明显量子特性的超快脉冲的实用方法（与传统的光脉冲不同，例如，通过表现出极低的噪声），改进了分析超级速度脉冲之间的量子纠缠的方法的改进，以及较大的Optical Optical Isport of Ultrast Optical Isport of Ultrif tim Ass formist of Ultrift Ass的开发。从未来的量子技术中进行潜在用途的广泛工程研究。从技术上讲，该项目的理论组成部分是围绕纳米光子设备和电路的新设备概念的混凝土研究来生成和操纵与非高斯量子状态的超级脉冲状态的少数量子状态。 这项工作将解决具有超快泵和信号场的纳米光量设备中量子非线性建模的基本问题，这是由应用程序的合成（用于量子计算）的应用，并实现了几个光量制度中具有泵阈值的超快光学参数振荡器。 预计后一个设备在有效地对具有许多相关光学模式的光学系统的量子动力学进行有效建模时需要重大进展。 该项目的实验组成部分旨在开发和验证测量方法，以表征同步的光学参数振荡器中信号脉冲之间的时间域纠缠，这有望与凝聚态物理物理学（例如tensor网络状态）的概念建立牢固的联系。 The experimental component will also include further work on a prototype synchronously-pumped optical parametric oscillator in which coherent feedback is utilized to establish programmable structures of entanglement across the output pulse train.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

项目成果

Degenerate optical parametric amplification in CMOS silicon

CMOS 硅中的简并光学参量放大

• DOI: 10.1364/optica.478702
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Optica
• 影响因子: 10.4
• 作者: Heydari, David;Cătuneanu, Mircea;Ng, Edwin;Gray, Dodd J.;Hamerly, Ryan;Mishra, Jatadhari;Jankowski, Marc;Fejer, M. M.;Jamshidi, Kambiz;Mabuchi, Hideo
• 通讯作者: Mabuchi, Hideo

Mid-infrared nonlinear optics in thin-film lithium niobate on sapphire

• DOI: 10.1364/optica.427428
• 发表时间: 2021-06-20
• 期刊: OPTICA
• 影响因子: 10.4
• 作者: Mishra, Jatadhari;McKenna, Timothy P.;Safavi-Naeini, Amir H.
• 通讯作者: Safavi-Naeini, Amir H.

Ultra-broadband mid-infrared generation in dispersion-engineered thin-film lithium niobate

• DOI: 10.1364/oe.467580
• 发表时间: 2022-08-29
• 期刊: OPTICS EXPRESS
• 影响因子: 3.8
• 作者: Mishra, Jatadhari;Jankowski, Marc;Fejer, M. M.
• 通讯作者: Fejer, M. M.

Efficient simulation of ultrafast quantum nonlinear optics with matrix product states

• DOI: 10.1364/optica.423044
• 发表时间: 2021-02
• 期刊: Optica
• 影响因子: 10.4
• 作者: Ryotatsu Yanagimoto;Edwin Ng;Logan G. Wright;Tatsuhiro Onodera;H. Mabuchi

Feedback and constraints in physical optimizers

物理优化器中的反馈和约束

• DOI: 10.1117/12.3005007
• 发表时间: 2024
• 期刊: Proceedings SPIE
• 作者: Gunturu, Niharika;Mabuchi, Hideo;Ng, Edwin;Wennberg, Daniel;Yanagimoto, Ryotatsu
• 通讯作者: Yanagimoto, Ryotatsu