Efficient detection of spectrally multimode squeezed light through optical parametric amplification

TL;DR

This paper demonstrates the first experimental detection of spectrally multimode squeezed light using optical parametric amplification, enabling broadband, loss-tolerant measurement across over 60 spectral modes for quantum technologies.

Contribution

It extends optical parametric amplification techniques to spectrally multimode squeezing detection, showing uniform squeezing across many spectral modes for the first time.

Findings

Detected squeezing in over 60 spectral modes

Achieved nearly uniform squeezing from -6.5 to -7 dB

Extended OPA capabilities into the spectral domain

Abstract

Multimode squeezed light is a key resource for high-dimensional photonic quantum technologies, enabling applications in quantum-enhanced sensing, quantum communication, and quantum computing. Efficient detection of such a multimode squeezed state is essential for unlocking its full potential. Optical parametric amplification (OPA) has recently gained attention as a powerful technique offering loss-tolerant, direct broadband detection, and multimode operation. While OPA has been used to characterize spatially multimode squeezing, its application to spectrally multimode squeezing has not yet been demonstrated. Here, we report on the first experimental demonstration of spectrally multimode squeezing detection using OPA. We achieve simultaneous detection of squeezing across more than 60 spectral modes of a broadband squeezed vacuum state. The observed squeezing is nearly uniform, ranging from -6.5 to -7 dB, which makes the source particularly suitable for constructing continuous-variable cluster states, and indicates the multimode capability of the OPA. The results extend the capabilities of OPA detection into the spectral domain, advancing spectral-mode-based high-dimensional photonic quantum technologies.