Degree

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Department

Physics and Astronomy

Document Type

Dissertation

Abstract

As classical technology approaches its limits, exploration of quantum technologies is critical. Quantum optics will be the basis of various cutting-edge research and applications in quantum technology. In particular, quantum optics quite efficacious when applied to quantum networks and the quantum internet. Quantum Optomechanics, a subfield of quantum optics, contains some novel methods for entanglement generation. These entanglement production methods exploit the noise re-encoding process, which is most often associated with creating unwanted phase noise in optical circuits. Using the adapted two-photon formalism and experimental results, we simulate (in an experimentally viable parameter space) optomechanical entanglement generation experiments. These simulations consider dual coherent field input, displaced single-mode squeezed input, and displaced two-mode squeezed inputs. Unsqueezed inputs should yield an $E_N$ of about 0.1 at room temperature, although very high measurement certainty is needed to observe this in the laboratory. Squeezing the displaced input fields increases the expected output entanglement significantly (maximum of $E_N$ of about 1). Furthermore, when considering dual two-mode squeezed input (4 fields) in the simulation, the optomechanical cavity demonstrates squeezing angle-dependent entanglement distribution.

Date

3-30-2021

Committee Chair

Corbitt, Thomas

DOI

10.31390/gradschool_dissertations.5526

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