Pulse-resolved measurement of continuous-variable Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen entanglement with shaped local oscillators

We report an experimental demonstration of the continuous-variable Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox and quantum steering using a pulsed light source and nonlinear optical waveguides. In this pulsed light source experiment, time-domain measurements were performed in which one measured value of the quadrature phase amplitude of the light field was independently obtained for each pulse. This independence is useful for application to quantum information processing and fundamental physics. To realize time-domain measurements, in-house built homodyne detectors were used to detect individual pulses. In addition, to improve the temporal-mode matching between the local oscillator (LO) and entangled pulse, the duration of the LO pulse was shortened by single-pass optical parametric amplification. The product of the conditional variances of the quadrature amplitudes was 0.82 +/- 0.09 < 1, which satisfies the condition for realization of the EPR paradox and quantum steering. (C) 2019 Optical Society of America under the terms of the OSA Open Access Publishing Agreement