scholarly journals How to optimize the absorption of two entangled photons

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Edoardo Carnio ◽  
Andreas Buchleitner ◽  
Frank Schlawin

We investigate how entanglement can enhance two-photon absorption in a three-level system. First, we employ the Schmidt decomposition to determine the entanglement properties of the optimal two-photon state to drive such a transition, and the maximum enhancement which can be achieved in comparison to the optimal classical pulse. We then adapt the optimization problem to realistic experimental constraints, where photon pairs from a down-conversion source are manipulated by local operations such as spatial light modulators. We derive optimal pulse shaping functions to enhance the absorption efficiency, and compare the maximal enhancement achievable by entanglement to the yield of optimally shaped, separable pulses.

2010 ◽  
Vol 114 (9) ◽  
pp. 3152-3169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudine Katan ◽  
Marina Charlot ◽  
Olivier Mongin ◽  
Céline Le Droumaguet ◽  
Viatcheslav Jouikov ◽  
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1975 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-411 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Krasiński ◽  
B. Karczewski ◽  
W. Majewski ◽  
M. Głódź

2009 ◽  
Vol 113 (19) ◽  
pp. 5594-5597 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. L. Silva ◽  
L. Misoguti ◽  
C. R. Mendonça

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (10) ◽  
pp. 3783 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yalun Wang ◽  
Rongrong Hu ◽  
Wang Xi ◽  
Fuhong Cai ◽  
Shaowei Wang ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Andreas Jechow

The interaction between single or a fixed number of photons with a single absorber is of fundamental interest in quantum technology. The harnessing of light matter interactions at the single particle limit has several potential applications ranging from quantum communication and quantum metrology to quantum imaging. In this letter, a setup for heralded two-photon absorption at the single absorber level is proposed. The setup is based on a heralded two-photon source utilizing spontaneous parametric down-conversion, entanglement swapping and sum frequency generation for joint detection. The feasibility of the scheme is discussed by reviewing recent achievements in utilizing entangled and correlated photons for two-photon absorption as well as single photon absorption experiments at the limit of single absorbers in the context of applications in imaging (here mainly microscopy) and spectroscopy.


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