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We put forward a method that allows the experimental determination of the entire spatial mode spectrum of any arbitrary monochromatic wave field in a plane normal to its propagation direction. For coherent optical fields, our spatial…

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We present a single-pass source of broadband multimode squeezed light with potential application in quantum information and quantum metrology. The source is based on a type I parametric down-conversion (PDC) process inside a bulk nonlinear…

Control over the spectral properties of the bright squeezed vacuum (BSV), a highly multimode non-classical macroscopic state of light that can be generated through high-gain parametric down conversion, is crucial for many applications. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-30 P. R. Sharapova , O. V. Tikhonova , S. Lemieux , R. W. Boyd , M. V. Chekhova

Multimode squeezed light is a key resource for high-dimensional quantum technologies, enhancing metrological sensitivity, boosting communication security, and enabling parallel processing in computation. Its practical potential, however,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-09 Mahmoud Kalash , Aditya Sudharsanam , M. H. M. Passos , Valentina Parigi , Maria Chekhova

We propose a method for finding 2D spatial modes of thermal field through a direct measurement of the field intensity and an offline analysis of its spatial fluctuations. Using this method, in a simple and efficient way we reconstruct the…

We study the spatial properties of high-gain parametric down-conversion (PDC). From the Hamiltonian we find the Schmidt modes, apply the Bloch-Messiah reduction, and calculate analytically the measurable quantities, such as the angular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-29 Polina R. Sharapova , Angela M. Perez , Olga V. Tikhonova , Maria V. Chekhova

We propose and experimentally demonstrate a nonlinear-optics approach to pattern recognition with single-pixel imaging and deep neural network. It employs mode selective image up-conversion to project a raw image onto a set of coherent…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-03 Ting Bu , Santosh Kumar , He Zhang , Irwin Huang , Yuping Huang

We propose a scheme to implement a single-mode quantum filter, which selectively eliminates the one-photon state in a quantum state $\alpha|0>+\beta|1>+\gamma|2>$. The vacuum state and the two photon state are transmitted without any…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 XuBo Zou , K. Pahlke , W. Mathis

The input power-induced transformation of the transverse intensity profile at the output of graded-index multimode optical fibers from speckles into a bell-shaped beam sitting on a low intensity background is known as spatial beam…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-25 Mario Ferraro , Fabio Mangini , Mario Zitelli , Stefan Wabnitz

Two-photon states entangled in continuous variables such as wavevector or frequency represent a powerful resource for quantum information protocols in higher-dimensional Hilbert spaces. At the same time, there is a problem of addressing…

Multimode fibers are attractive for a variety of applications such as internet data transfer, data center hubs, micromanipulation, optogenetics and other biomedical applications. A major hurdle for imaging through multimode fibers is the…

Using continuous wave superposition of spatial modes, we demonstrate experimentally displacement measurement of a light beam below the standard quantum limit. Multimode squeezed light is obtained by mixing a vacuum squeezed beam and a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 N. Treps , U. Andersen , B. Buchler , P. K. Lam , A. Maitre , H. -A. Bachor , C. Fabre

Strongly squeezed states of light are a key technology in boosting the sensitivity of interferometric setups, such as in gravitational-wave detectors. However, the practical use of squeezed states is limited by optical loss, which reduces…

Multimode quantum light has promising applications in many areas of physics, such as quantum communications and quantum computing. However, its multimode nature also makes it challenging to measure its properties. Recently [Optica Quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-04-29 D. Scharwald , P. R. Sharapova

Optical parametric amplification generates squeezed light in device-specific sets of time-frequency eigenmodes, and it has been widely accepted that detection and utilization of squeezing must comply with this modal constraint. We show that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-23 Han Liu , Meng Lon Iu , Noor Hamdash , Amr S. Helmy

We investigate the procedure of Schmidt modes extraction in systems with continuous variables. An algorithm based on singular value matrix decomposition is applied to the study of entanglement in an "atom-photon" system with spontaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Yu. Bogdanov , Yu. I. Bogdanov , K. A. Valiev

The existence of a shift-shift memory effect, whereby any translation of the input field induces translations in the output field in four symmetrical directions, has been observed in square waveguides by correlation measurements. Here we…

Optics · Physics 2023-03-21 Sylvain Mezil , Irène Wang , Emmanuel Bossy

We prepare qudits based on angular multimode biphoton states by modulating the pump angular spectrum. The modes are prepared in the Schmidt basis and their intensity distributions do not overlap in space. This allows one to get rid of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-24 N. A. Borshchevskaia , F. Just , K. G. Katamadze , A. Cavanna , M. V. Chekhova

Light transport in a highly multimode fiber exhibits complex behavior in space, time, frequency and polarization, especially in the presence of mode coupling. The newly developed techniques of spatial wavefront shaping turn out to be highly…

Optics · Physics 2023-07-06 Hui Cao , Tomáš Čižmár , Sergey Turtaev , Tomáš Tyc , Stefan Rotter

The propagation of coherent light in multimode optical fibers results in a speckled output that is both complex and sensitive to environmental effects. These properties can be a powerful tool for sensing, as small perturbations lead to…