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Measurement of Quantum Interference in a Silicon Ring Resonator Photon Source
Published on: April 4, 2017
500 MHz resonant photodetector for high-quantum-efficiency, low-noise homodyne measurement
Takahiro Serikawa1, Akira Furusawa1
1Department of Applied Physics, School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan.
Abstract:
We design and demonstrate a resonant-type differential photodetector for a low-noise quantum homodyne measurement at 500 MHz optical sideband with 17 MHz of bandwidth. By using a microwave monolithic amplifier and a discrete voltage buffer circuit, a low-noise voltage amplifier is realized and applied to our detector. 12 dB of signal-to-noise ratio of the shot noise to the electric noise is obtained with 5 mW of a continuous-wave local oscillator. We analyze the frequency response and the noise characteristics of a resonant photodetector, and the theoretical model agrees with the shot noise measurement.
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