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  1. Abstract

    Many technologies emerging from quantum information science heavily rely upon the generation and manipulation of entangled quantum states. Here, we propose and demonstrate a new class of quantum interference phenomena that arise when states are created in and coherently converted between the propagating modes of an optical microcavity. The modal coupling introduces several new creation pathways to a nonlinear optical process within the device, which quantum mechanically interfere to drive the system between states in the time domain. The coherent conversion entangles the generated biphotons between propagation pathways, leading to cyclically evolving path-entanglement and the manifestation of coherent oscillations in second-order temporal correlations. Furthermore, the rich device physics is harnessed to tune properties of the quantum states. In particular, we show that the strength of interference between pathways can be coherently controlled, allowing for manipulation of the degree of entanglement, which can even be entirely quenched. The states can likewise be made to flip-flop between exhibiting initially correlated or uncorrelated behavior. The phenomena presented here open a route to creating higher dimensional entanglement and exotic multi-photon states.

     
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  2. Abstract

    Photonic sensors based upon high‐quality microcavities have found a wide variety of applications ranging from inertial sensing, electro‐ and magnetometry to chemical and biological sensing. These sensors have a dynamic range limited by the linewidth of the cavity mode transducing the input. This dynamic range not only determines the range of the signal strength that can be detected, but also affects the resilience of the sensor against large deteriorating external perturbations and shocks in a practical environment. Unfortunately, there is a general trade‐off between the detection sensitivity and the dynamic range, which undermines the performance of all microcavity‐based sensors. Here, an approach is proposed to extend the dynamic range significantly beyond the cavity linewidth limit by exploiting the periodic nature of the modulation signal, making measurements in the nonlinear transduction regime without degrading the detection sensitivity for weak signals. With a cavity optomechanical system, a dynamic range of over six times larger than the cavity linewidth is experimentally demonstrated, far beyond the conventional linear region of operation for such a sensor. This approach will help design microcavity‐based sensors to achieve high detection sensitivity and a large dynamic range at the same time, a crucial property for their use in a practical environment.

     
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