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  • 2017 European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and European Quantum Electronics Conference
  • (Optica Publishing Group, 2017),
  • paper EH_7_2

Coherent absorption of two-photon states in metamaterials

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Abstract

Multiple photon absorption processes typically have a nonlinear dependence on the amplitude of the incident optical field. On the other hand, quantum technologies rely on single photon events. It has therefore been of great technical difficulty to achieve nonlinear devices using single photons. This is due to the small cross-section of absorption in room temperature devices, with multi-photon absorption events occurring with extremely low probability. The lack of access to nonlinear processes severely inhibits the use of optics for a large number of applications surrounding quantum technologies. We demonstrate experimentally that by exploiting a coherent absorption mechanism for N=2 N00N states, outlined theoretically by Jeffers in 2000 [1] and experimentally explored by Roger et. al. in 2016 [2], that it is possible to determine and enhance the number of two photon states that are absorbed. Here a 50% absorbing metasurface is placed inside a Sagnac interferometer into which we inject a N00N state. We show that by tuning the phase ϕ of the input state, |2,0〉+exp(−i2ϕ) |0,2〉, we can selectively tune the output state. For an input phase of ϕ = π/2 or 3π/2 we find that a single photon is absorbed with 100% probability. However, when we tune the input phase to ϕ = 0 or π we see that either 0 or 2 photons are absorbed with equal probability. We have developed a theoretical model that, with no free parameters, fits the experimentally measured two-photon contribution and finds the maximum contribution of |0,0〉 〈0,0| to the output state to be 40.5%.

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