Back action in quantum electro-optic sampling of electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2202.03353v1
• Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2022 16:55:19 GMT
• Title: Back action in quantum electro-optic sampling of electromagnetic vacuum fluctuations
• Authors: T. L. M. Guedes, I. Vakulchyk, D. V. Seletskiy, A. Leitenstorfer, A. S. Moskalenko, Guido Burkard
• Abstract summary: The influence of measurement back action on electro-optic sampling of electromagnetic quantum fluctuations is investigated. Based on a cascaded treatment of the nonlinear interaction between a near-infrared coherent probe and the mid-infrared vacuum, we account for the generated electric-field contributions that lead to detectable back action.
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• Abstract: The influence of measurement back action on electro-optic sampling of electromagnetic quantum fluctuations is investigated. Based on a cascaded treatment of the nonlinear interaction between a near-infrared coherent probe and the mid-infrared vacuum, we account for the generated electric-field contributions that lead to detectable back action. Specifically, we theoretically address two realistic setups, exploiting one or two probe beams for the nonlinear interaction with the quantum vacuum, respectively. The setup parameters at which back action starts to considerably contaminate the measured noise profiles are determined. Due to the vacuum fluctuations entering at the beam splitter, the shot noise of two incoming probe pulses in different channels is uncorrelated. This leads to the absence of the base-level shot noise in the correlation, while further contributions due to nonlinear shot-noise enhancement are still present. Ultimately, the regime in which electro-optic sampling of quantum fields can be considered as effectively back-action free is found.

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