Input-output model of pulsed quantum optics
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Pulsed quantum optical systems are a promising platform for quantum-enhanced information processing. This is fundamentally due to the presence of large optical bandwidth in such systems, which greatly enhances the optical nonlinearities while also giving rise to a multimode bosonic system with a high-dimensional Hilbert space. To study both of these implications quantitatively, we explore whether the dynamics of pulsed quantum optical systems can be effectively modeled with an input-output model - which are models of open quantum systems that interact with a Markovian bosonic bath. The explicit emphasis on input-output theory is motivated by the availability of theoretical and numerical tools which have been developed by the quantum optics community for analysis and simulation. We study ultrashort-pulse optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) and conclude that there are specific time-scale requirements for pulsed quantum optical systems to admit an input-output description. By performing numerical simulations of the input-output model, we find that the pulsed dynamics do lead to an enhancement of the optical nonlinearity, but the multimode pulsed nature of the pump can also act as decoherence channels. In addition to the work on pulsed quantum optics, this thesis also explores the applications of analytical and numerical tools of input-output theory to model and simulate quantum networks of optical components that are experimentally studied in our group. In particular, we derive quantum models for both the coherent Ising machine and the nonlinear coherent feedback control of a non-degenerate OPO with quantum network theory. Finally, this work also investigates the use of the quantum manifold formalism to reduce and simplify numerical models of multiatom cavity QED systems.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Onodera, Tatsuhiro |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Mabuchi, Hideo |
| Thesis advisor | Mabuchi, Hideo |
| Thesis advisor | Fan, Shanhui, 1972- |
| Thesis advisor | Safavi-Naeini, Amir H |
| Degree committee member | Fan, Shanhui, 1972- |
| Degree committee member | Safavi-Naeini, Amir H |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Applied Physics. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Tatsuhiro Onodera. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Applied Physics. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Tatsuhiro Onodera
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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