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The increasing complexity of the recent photonic experiments challenges developing efficient multi-channel coincidence counting systems with high-level functionality. Here, we report a coincidence unit able to count detection events ranging…

Optics · Physics 2024-02-29 Josef Hloušek , Jan Grygar , Michal Dudka , Miroslav Ježek

Sub-nanosecond precision clock synchronization over the packet network has been achieved by the White Rabbit protocol for a decade. However, few computer systems utilize such a technique. We try to attract more interest in the clock…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Ying Zhang

The goal of this research is to determine and study a physical system that will enable a fast and intrinsically two-photon detector, which would be of interest for quantum information and metrology applications. We consider two types of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dmitry V. Strekalov , Matt Stowe , Maria V. Chekhova , Jonathan P. Dowling

Separate constituents of extended systems measure proper-times on different world-lines. Relating and comparing proper-time measurements along any two such world-lines requires that common simultaneity be possible, which in turn implies…

Classical Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Uri Ben-Ya'acov

In x-ray coherent scatter tomography, tomographic measurements of the forward scatter distribution are used to infer scatter densities within a volume. A radiopaque 2D pattern placed between the object and the detector array enables the…

Spatial quantum correlations in the transverse degree of freedom promise to enhance optical resolution, image detection, and quantum communications through parallel quantum information encoding. In particular, the ability to observe these…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-24 Ashok Kumar , Hayden Nunley , A. M. Marino

We report on multi-photon statistics of correlated twin beams produced in a periodic poled micro-ring resonator on thin-film lithium niobate. Owing to high cavity confinement and near perfect quasi-phase matching, the photons pairs are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-28 Zhaohui Ma , Jia-Yang Chen , Malvika Garikapati , Zhan Li , Chao Tang , Yong Meng Sua , Yu-Ping Huang

Time-frequency duality, which enables control of optical waveforms by manipulating amplitudes and phases of electromagnetic fields, plays a pivotal role in a wide range of modern optics. The conventional one-dimensional (1D) time-frequency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-17 Rui-Bo Jin , Takuma Saito , Ryosuke Shimizu

In this work we investigate quantum-enhanced target detection in the presence of large background noise using multidimensional quantum correlations between photon pairs generated through spontaneous parametric down-conversion. Until now…

We discuss the possibility of synchronising two atomic clocks exchanging entangled photon pairs through a quantum channel. A proposal for implementing practically such a scheme is discussed.

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Genovese , C. Novero

Polarization plays an important role in various time-domain astrophysics to understand the magnetic fields, geometry, and environments of spatially unresolved variable sources. In this paper we present the results of laboratory and on-sky…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-29 Manisha Shrestha , Iain A. Steele , Andrez S. Piascik , Helen Jermak , Robert J. Smith , Chris M. Copperwheat

Distributed wireless clock synchronization is essential for aligning the clocks of distributed transceivers in support of joint transmission and reception techniques. One recently explored method involves synchronizing distributed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-01 Kumar Sai Bondada , Hiten Kothari , Yibin Liang , Daniel J. Jakubisin , R. Michael Buehrer

The problem of clock offset estimation in a two-way timing exchange regime is considered when the likelihood function of the observation time stamps is exponentially distributed. In order to capture the imperfections in node oscillators,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-02-02 Aitzaz Ahmad , Davide Zennaro , Erchin Serpedin , Lorenzo Vangelista

Semiconductor quantum dots are excellent candidates for ultrafast coherent manipulation of qubits by laser pulses on picosecond timescales or even faster. In inhomogeneous ensembles a macroscopic optical polarization decays rapidly due to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-06-11 A. N. Kosarev , H. Rose , S. V. Poltavtsev , M. Reichelt , C. Schneider , M. Kamp , S. Hoefling , M. Bayer , T. Meier , I. A. Akimov

The synchronization of coherent states of light has long been an important subject of basic research and technology. Recently, a new concept for analog computers has emerged where this synchronization process can be exploited to solve…

Quantum Gases · Physics 2021-10-06 Chris Toebes , Mario Vretenar , Jan Klaers

By exploiting the quantised nature of light, we demonstrate a sub-shot-noise scanning optical transmittance microscope. Our microscope demonstrates, with micron scale resolution, a factor of improvement in precision of 1.76(9) in…

Clock interferometry refers to the coherent splitting of a clock into two different paths and recombining in a way that reveals the proper time difference between them. Unlike the comparison of two separate clocks, this approach allows…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-05 Ilan Meltzer , Yoav Sagi

Event-based cameras are increasingly utilized in various applications, owing to their high temporal resolution and low power consumption. However, a fundamental challenge arises when deploying multiple such cameras: they operate on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Wanli Xing , Shijie Lin , Guangze Zheng , Yanjun Du , Jia Pan

Boson sampling is a well-defined task that is strongly believed to be intractable for classical computers, but can be efficiently solved by a specific quantum simulator. However, an outstanding problem for large-scale experimental boson…

Future optical clock networks will require free-space optical time-frequency transfer between flying clocks. However, simple one-way or standard two-way time transfer between flying clocks will completely break down because of the…