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Low Noise Opto-Electro-Mechanical Modulator for RF-to-Optical Transduction in Quantum Communications
Michele Bonaldi, Antonio Borrielli, Giovanni Di Giuseppe +7
In this work, we present an Opto-Electro-Mechanical Modulator (OEMM) for RF-to-optical transduction realized via an ultra-coherent nanomembrane resonator capacitively coupled to an…
Amplitude and phase noise in Two-membrane cavity optomechanics
Francesco Marzioni, Francesco Rasponi, Paolo Piergentili +3
Cavity optomechanics is a suitable field to explore quantum effects on macroscopic objects and develop quantum technology applications. A perfect control of the laser noise is requ…
Two-membrane cavity optomechanics: non-linear dynamics
Paolo Piergentili, Wenlin Li, Riccardo Natali +3
We study the non-linear dynamics of a multimode optomechanical system constituted of a driven high-finesse Fabry-Pérot cavity containing two vibrating dielectric membranes. The ana…
Normal--mode splitting in a weakly coupled optomechanical system
Massimiliano Rossi, Nenad Kralj, Stefano Zippilli +6
Normal--mode splitting is the most evident signature of strong coupling between two interacting subsystems. It occurs when two subsystems exchange energy between themselves faster…
Sensitivity-bandwidth limit in a multi-mode opto-electro-mechanical transducer
I. Moaddel Haghighi, N. Malossi, R. Natali +2
An opto--electro--mechanical system formed by a nanomembrane capacitively coupled to an LC resonator and to an optical interferometer has been recently employed for the high--sensi…
Enhancing sideband cooling by feedback--controlled light
Massimiliano Rossi, Nenad Kralj, Stefano Zippilli +6
We realise a phase-sensitive closed-loop control scheme to engineer the fluctuations of the pump field which drives an optomechanical system, and show that the corresponding coolin…
Microfabrication of large area high-stress silicon nitride membranes for optomechanical devices
E. Serra, M. Bawaj, A. Borrielli +16
In view of the integration of membrane resonators with more complex MEMS structures, we developed a general fabrication procedure for circular shape SiN membranes using Deep Re…
Probing deformed commutators with macroscopic harmonic oscillators
Mateusz Bawaj, Ciro Biancofiore, Michele Bonaldi +11
A minimal observable length is a common feature of theories that aim to merge quantum physics and gravity. Quantum mechanically, this concept is associated to a nonzero minimal unc…
Entanglement and squeezing of continuous-wave stationary light
Stefano Zippilli, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, David Vitali
Spectral components of continuous squeezed fields are entangled. In this article we review and clarify this phenomenon by analyzing systematically the relations between the correla…
Optomechanically induced transparency in membrane-in-the-middle setup at room temperature
M. Karuza, C. Biancofiore, M. Bawaj +6
We demonstrate the analogue of electromagnetically induced transparency in a room temperature cavity optomechanics setup formed by a thin semitransparent membrane within a Fabry-Pé…
Optomechanical sideband cooling of a thin membrane within a cavity
M. Karuza, C. Molinelli, M. Galassi +5
We present an experimental study of dynamical back-action cooling of the fundamental vibrational mode of a thin semitransparent membrane placed within a high-finesse optical cavity…
Tunable linear and quadratic optomechanical coupling for a tilted membrane within an optical cavity: theory and experiment
M. Karuza, M. Galassi, C. Biancofiore +5
We present an experimental study of an optomechanical system formed by a vibrating thin semi-transparent membrane within a high-finesse optical cavity. We show that the coupling be…
Quantum dynamics of a high-finesse optical cavity coupled with a thin semi-transparent membrane
C. Biancofiore, M. Karuza, M. Galassi +4
We study the quantum dynamics of the cavity optomechanical system formed by a Fabry-Perot cavity with a thin vibrating membrane at its center. We first derive the general multimode…
Quantum dynamics of a vibrational mode of a membrane within an optical cavity
M. Karuza, C. Biancofiore, M. Galassi +4
Optomechanical systems are a promising candidate for the implementation of quantum interfaces for storing and redistributing quantum information. Here we focus on the case of a hig…
Modal and Polarization Qubits in Ti:LiNbO Photonic Circuits for a Universal Quantum Logic Gate
Mohammed F. Saleh, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, Bahaa E. A. Saleh +1
Lithium niobate photonic circuits have the salutary property of permitting the generation, transmission, and processing of photons to be accommodated on a single chip. Compact phot…
Photonic circuits for generating modal, spectral, and polarization entanglement
Mohammed F. Saleh, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, Bahaa E. A. Saleh +1
We consider the design of photonic circuits that make use of Ti:LiNbO diffused channel waveguides for generating photons with various combinations of modal, spectral, and pol…
Compensating the Noise of a Communication Channel via Asymmetric Encoding of Quantum Information
Marco Lucamarini, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, David Vitali +1
An asymmetric preparation of the quantum states sent through a noisy channel can enable a new way to monitor and actively compensate the channel noise. The paradigm of such an asym…
Experimental inhibition of decoherence on flying qubits via bang-bang control
Sajeev Damodarakurup, Marco Lucamarini, Giovanni Di Giuseppe +2
Decoherence may significantly affect the polarization state of optical pulses propagating in dispersive media because of the unavoidable presence of more than a single frequency in…
Experimental Test of Two-way Quantum Key Distribution in Presence of Controlled Noise
A. Cere', M. Lucamarini, G. Di Giuseppe +1
We describe the experimental test of a quantum key distribution performed with a two-way protocol without using entanglement. An individual incoherent eavesdropping is simulated an…
Polarization-sensitive quantum-optical coherence tomography
Mark C. Booth, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, Bahaa E. A. Saleh +2
We set forth a polarization-sensitive quantum-optical coherence tomography (PS-QOCT) technique that provides axial optical sectioning with polarization-sensitive capabilities. The…
Effective fiber-coupling of entangled photons for quantum communication
F. A. Bovino, P. Varisco, A. M. Colla +3
We report on theoretical and experimental demonstration of high-efficiency coupling of two-photon entangled states produced in the nonlinear process of spontaneous parametric down…
Counter-propagating entangled photons from a waveguide with periodic nonlinearity
Mark C. Booth, Mete Atature, Giovanni Di Giuseppe +3
The conditions required for spontaneous parametric down-conversion in a waveguide with periodic nonlinearity in the presence of an unguided pump field are established. Control of t…
Entangled-Photon Generation from Parametric Down-Conversion in Media with Inhomogeneous Nonlinearity
Giovanni Di Giuseppe, Mete Atature, Matthew D. Shaw +3
We develop and experimentally verify a theory of Type-II spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in media with inhomogeneous distributions of second-order nonlinearity. As a…
Multi-parameter Entanglement in Quantum Interferometry
Mete Atature, Giovanni Di Giuseppe, Matthew D. Shaw +3
The role of multi-parameter entanglement in quantum interference from collinear type-II spontaneous parametric down-conversion is explored using a variety of aperture shapes and si…