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Electro-Optic Fourier Transform Chronometry of Pulsed Quantum Light

Ali Golestani1, Alex O. C. Davis2,3,*, Filip Sośnicki1, Michał Mikołajczyk1, Nicolas Treps3, and Michał Karpiński1

  • 1Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Pasteura 5, 02-093 Warszawa, Poland
  • 2Centre for Photonics and Photonic Materials, Department of Physics, University of Bath, Bath BA2 7AY, United Kingdom
  • 3Laboratoire Kastler Brossel, Sorbonne Université, ENS-Université PSL, CNRS, Collège de France, 4 Place Jussieu, F-75252 Paris, France

  • *aocd20@bath.ac.uk
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Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123605 – Published 16 September, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.129.123605

Abstract

The power spectrum of an optical field can be acquired without a spectrally resolving detector by means of Fourier-transform spectrometry, based on measuring the temporal autocorrelation of the optical field. Analogously, we here perform temporal envelope measurements of ultrashort optical pulses without time resolved detection. We introduce the technique of Fourier transform chronometry, where the temporal envelope is acquired by measuring the frequency autocorrelation of the optical field in a linear interferometer. We apply our technique, which is the time-frequency conjugate measurement to Fourier-transform spectrometry, to experimentally measure the pulse envelope of classical and single-photon light pulses.

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Phys. Rev. Lett. 129, 123605– Published 16 September, 2022
  • Received 25 May 2022
  • Accepted 10 August 2022
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