Measurement-induced nonlinearity in linear optics

Nonlinearity management in optics

Mason A. Porter∗1, Martin Centurion2, Ye Pu3, P. G. Kevrekidis4, D. J. Frantzeskakis5, and Demetri Psaltis3 1 Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, OX1 3LB, United Kingdom 2 Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics, 85748 Garching, Germany 3 Department of Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA 4 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Univer...

Feedback-induced nonlinearity and superconducting on-chip quantum optics

Zhong-Peng Liu,1,2,3,* Hui Wang,2,3,4 Jing Zhang,1,2,3,5,† Yu-xi Liu,2,3,4 Re-Bing Wu,1,2,3 Chun-Wen Li,1,2,3 and Franco Nori3,6 1Department of Automation, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China 2Center for Quantum Information Science and Technology, TNList, Beijing 100084, People’s Republic of China 3Center for Emergent Matter Science, RIKEN, Saitama 351-0198, Japan 4I...

Binary projective measurement via linear optics and photon counting.

We investigate the implementation of binary projective measurements with linear optics. This problem can be viewed as a single-shot discrimination of two orthogonal pure quantum states. We show that any two orthogonal states can be perfectly discriminated using only linear optics, photon counting, coherent ancillary states, and feedforward. The statement holds in the asymptotic limit of a large...

Nonlinearity management in optics: experiment, theory, and simulation.

We conduct an experimental investigation of nonlinearity management in optics using femtosecond pulses and layered Kerr media consisting of glass and air. By examining the propagation properties over several diffraction lengths, we show that wave collapse can be prevented. We corroborate these experimental results with numerical simulations of the (2+1)-dimensional focusing cubic nonlinear Schr...

Nonlinearity measurement of optical fibers