Squeezed Light Generation Using a Josephson Traveling Wave Parametric Amplifier in Non-Degenerate Four Wave Mixing

ORAL

Abstract

The generation of highly-squeezed states using superconducting amplifiers is a valuable tool for quantum optics and quantum metrology in the microwave domain. However, conventional Josephson parametric amplifiers can be limited with respect to their dynamic range, often due to the relatively strong nonlinearity of cavity-based devices. Recently, Josephson traveling-wave parametric amplifiers (JTWPAs) have been developed exhibiting large dynamic range with a 1dB compression point around -100dBm at the input of the JTWPA and over 3 GHz bandwidth. The high saturation power of these devices makes them promising candidates for generating highly squeezed states. In this talk, we present a novel scheme for operating a JTWPA in a non-degenerate four-wave mixing mode, and discuss our investigations of the JTWPA squeezing performance.

*This research was funded by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) under Air Force Contract No. FA8721-05-C-0002. The views and conclusions contained herein are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as necessarily

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Presenters

  • Yanjie Qiu

    • MIT

Authors

  • Yanjie Qiu

    • MIT

  • Kevin O'Brien

    • Univ of California – Berkeley
    • Univ of California - Berkeley
    • University of California - Berkeley
    • Physics, Univ of California - Berkeley

  • Arne Grimsmo

    • University of Sydney

  • Philip Krantz

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    • MIT Lincoln Lab
    • Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT
    • MIT

  • Greg Calusine

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory

  • Vlad Bolkhovsky

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    • MIT Lincoln Lab

  • Terry Orlando

    • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • MIT
    • Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts institute of Technology

  • Simon Gustavsson

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Research Laborotary of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT
    • MIT
    • Research Laboratory of Electronics, Massachusetts institute of Technology

  • Irfan Siddiqi

    • Univ of California - Berkeley
    • Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley
    • Department of Physics, University of California, Berkeley
    • University of California Berkeley
    • Univ of California – Berkeley
    • Physics, Univ of California -- Berkeley
    • Physics, Univ of California - Berkeley
    • University of California - Berkeley

  • William Oliver

    • MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    • MIT Lincoln Lab
    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology & MIT Lincoln Laboratory
    • Department of Physics, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT
    • Department of Physics, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Inst of Tech-MIT
    • MIT
    • Lincoln Laboratory, Research Laboratory of Electronics, and Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
    • Department of Physics, Research Laboratory of Electronics, Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts institute of Technology