Noiseless attenuation using an optical parametric amplifier
| dc.contributor.author | Brewster, R. A. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nodurft, I. C. | |
| dc.contributor.author | Pittman, Todd | |
| dc.contributor.author | Franson, J.D. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-04T17:31:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-08-04T17:31:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2017-10-09 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The process of heralded noiseless amplification, and the inverse process of heralded noiseless attenuation, have potential applications in the context of quantum communications. Although several different physical implementations of heralded noiseless amplifiers have now been demonstrated, the research on heralded noiseless attenuators has been largely confined to a beam-splitter based approach. Here we show that an optical parametric amplifier (OPA), combined with appropriate heralding, can also serve as a heralded noiseless attenuator. The counterintuitive use of an optical amplifier as an attenuator is only possible due to the probabilistic nature of the device. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 1402708. We acknowledge fruitful conversations with G. T. Hickman and H. Lamsal. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://journals.aps.org/pra/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.042307 | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 3 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m2yhtd-hmgl | |
| dc.identifier.citation | R. A. Brewster, I. C. Nodurft, T. B. Pittman, and J. D. Franson, Noiseless attenuation using an optical parametric amplifier, Phys. Rev. A 96, 042307 (2017), DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.042307 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.96.042307 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/19324 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | American Physical Society (APS) | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Physics Department Collection | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Joint Center for Earth Systems Technology (JCET) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Faculty Collection | |
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| dc.rights | ©2017 American Physical Society | |
| dc.title | Noiseless attenuation using an optical parametric amplifier | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |