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Morphing Supermodes: A Full Characterization for Enabling Multimode Quantum Optics
Élie Gouzien1, Sébastien Tanzilli1, Virginia D'Auria1
1Université Cote d'Azur, CNRS, Institut de Physique de Nice, Parc Valrose, 06108 Nice Cedex 2, France.
Abstract:
In this Letter, we present a universal approach enabling the full characterization of the quantum properties of a multimode optical system in terms of squeezing and morphing supermodes. These are modes undergoing a continuous evolution that allow uncoupling the system dynamics in terms of statistically independent physical observables. This dynamical feature, never considered so far, enables the description and investigation of an extremely broad variety of key resources for experimental quantum optics, ranging from optical parametric oscillators to silicon-based microring resonators, as well as optomechanical systems.
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