Cross-phase modulation between pulse matched lights in optical loop system

Abstract

We observed conditional cross-phase modulation (C-XPM) applicable to quantum phase gate. Combinations of two probe field's polarizations conditioned XPM of two probe fields in the corresponding nonlinear optical system. With optimized parameters of multi-photon transition, we could increase C-XPM more than 1 rad. with small probe absorption. Group velocity matching ratio between probe pulses was estimated to 1.2 in the optical loop system. Because multi-photon interference depends on the ratio between the Rabi frequencies of the probe fields, not the individual intensity, we expect the same phase shift between few photons level's probe pulses in our scheme.