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AUTHOR
Eric Lantz
Demonstration of Stimulated-Raman-scattering suppression in optical fibers in a multifrequency pumping configuration
International audience; We analyze the stimulated-Raman-scattering-(SRS) process induced by a linearly polarized multifrequency pump field in a normally dispersive single-mode fiber. We show, by theoretical analysis and numerical simulations, that the SRS process may be either controlled by switching all the generated Stokes radiations to the lowest-frequency pump or suppressed for all the frequency components of the pump field. The suppression process is achieved by an appropriate choice of the frequency separation between the pumps and a particular power distribution among the frequency components of the pump field. We present experimental spectra showing the effectiveness of this suppres…
Entangled photons through thick scattering media: experiments and comparison with simulations of the biphoton wave function
International audience; We report experimentally and numerically quantum correlations imaging through thick random media. We demonstrated that spatial correlations between twin photon are still detected but no in form of two-photon speckle-like patterns.
Comment on “Thresholded Quantum LIDAR: Exploiting Photon-Number-Resolving Detection”
International audience; The ratio of the SNR with thresholding and with proportional detection for one photon of mean background noise, for a threshold value N from 1 to 4.
Wavelength conversion from 1.3 µm to 1.5 µm in single-mode optical fibres using Raman-assisted three-wave mixing
International audience; We theoretically analyse the achievement of wide-range all-optical wavelength conversion of a 1.31 µm signal to an idler wave in the 1.5 µm spectral region by Raman-assisted three-wave mixing in single-mode optical fibres. Raman-assisted three-wave mixing allows efficient conversion on a large frequency detuning bandwidth while alleviating the need for stringent phase-matching conditions.
Demonstration of polarization pulling using a fiber-optic parametric amplifier
International audience; We report the observation of all-optical polarization pulling of an initially polarization-scrambled signal using parametric amplification in a highly nonlinear optical fiber. Broadband polarization pulling has been achieved both for the signal and idler waves with up to 25 dB gain using the strong polarization sensitivity of parametric amplifiers. We further derive the probability distribution function for the final polarization state, assuming a randomly polarized initial state, and we show that it agrees well with the experiments.
Temporal ghost imaging with photon pairs
International audience; We present an experiment of temporal ghost imaging based on the spatial properties of twin photons. The retrieval of a binary time signal of 8 bits is performed with an error rate of 0.70%.
Raman-assisted three-wave mixing of non-phase-matched waves in optical fibres: application to wide-range frequency conversion
International audience; We analyse theoretically and experimentally the Raman-assisted parametric coupling between non-phase-matched waves propagating in normally dispersive single-mode fibres. We perform a careful analysis of the wave-coupling behaviour, which shows that scalar and vector three-wave mixing (TWM) interactions induce a relatively small periodic power flow between a central-frequency pump at frequency ω0 and a pair of up-shifted (anti-Stokes) and down-shifted (Stokes) sidebands at frequencies View the MathML source and View the MathML source, respectively. For sufficiently high pump powers, the stimulated Raman scattering enters into play, causing a unilateral transfer of ene…
Raman-assisted parametric frequency conversion in a normally dispersive single-mode fiber
International audience; We demonstrate efficient frequency conversion with large frequency shifts of an anti-Stokes signal into a parametrically seeded Stokes idler, which is generated by a highly mismatched three-wave mixing interaction and subsequent Raman amplification in a normally dispersive single-mode fiber. The use of non-phase-matched waves in Raman-assisted three-wave mixing interactions overcomes the strict spectral limitations imposed by phase-matching conditions in parametric frequency-conversion processes.
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox in single pairs of images
Spatially entangled twin photons provide a test of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox in its original form of position (image plane) versus impulsion (Fourier plane). We show that recording a single pair of images in each plane is sufficient to safely demonstrate an EPR paradox. On each pair of images, we have retrieved the fluctuations by subtracting the fitted deterministic intensity shape and then have obtained an intercorrelation peak with a sufficient signal to noise ratio to safely distinguish this peak from random fluctuations. A 95% confidence interval has been determined, confirming a high degree of paradox whatever the considered single pairs. Last, we have verified that th…