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We report on Mid-infrared (MIR) OCT at 4 $\mu$m based on collinear sum-frequency upconversion and promote the A-scan scan rate to 3 kHz. We demonstrate the increased imaging speed for two spectral realizations, one providing an axial…

Optical computing chips have emerged as a transformative computing technology due to their high computational density, low energy consumption, and compact footprint. While real- and complex-valued computing chips have been well developed,…

Optics · Physics 2026-01-06 Songyue Liu , Qi Lu , Yuan Zhong , Yuru Li , Meng Xiang , Zhaohui Li , Chao Lu , Yikai Su , Lu Sun

Breaking optical reciprocity enables new regimes of light--matter interaction with broad implications for fundamental physics and emerging quantum technologies. Although various approaches have been explored to achieve optical…

Optics · Physics 2025-12-11 Jierui Hu , Hao Yuan , Joshua Akin , Shanhui Fan , Kejie Fang

The ability to detect single photons with high efficiency is a crucial requirement for various quantum information applications. By combining the storage process of a quantum memory for photons with fluorescence-based quantum state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Christoph Clausen , Nicolas Sangouard , Michael Drewsen

We propose an image resolution improvement method for optical coherence tomography (OCT) based on sparse continuous deconvolution. Traditional deconvolution techniques such as Lucy-Richardson deconvolution suffers from the artifact…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-04-11 Zhengyu Qiao , Yong Huang , Qun Hao

At the heart of recent breakthroughs in quantum imaging and spectroscopy utilizing undetected photons lies the quantum optical effect known as induced coherence without induced emission. This fundamental quantum interference effect has…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-24 Dong-Gil Im , Seung-Yeun Yoo , Chung-Hyun Lee , Jongheon Suh , Yoon-Ho Kim

We report an experiment to test quantum interference, entanglement and nonlocality using two dissimilar photon sources, the Sun and a semiconductor quantum dot on the Earth, which are separated by 150 million kilometers. By making the…

We report on a quantum interference experiment to probe the coherence between two photons coming from non degenerate photon pairs at telecom wavelength created in spatially separated sources. The two photons are mixed on a beam splitter and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-07 H. de Riedmatten , I. Marcikic , W. Tittel , H. Zbinden , N. Gisin

Two-photon interference (TPI) is a fundamental phenomenon in quantum optics and plays a crucial role in quantum information science and technology. TPI is commonly considered as quantum interference with an upper bound of $100\%$ for both…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-27 Manman Wang , Yanfeng Li , Hanqing Liu , Haiqiao Ni , Zhichuan Niu , Xiaogang Wei , Renfu Yang , Chengyong Hu

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) is capable of non-destructively obtaining cross-sectional information of samples with micrometer spatial resolution, which plays an important role in ophthalmology and endovascular medicine. Measuring OCT…

Medical Physics · Physics 2023-11-30 Yang Jianlong , Zhang Haoran , Liu Chang , Gu Chengfu

In this paper, we propose the use of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging for the problem of iris presentation attack (PA) detection. We assess its viability by comparing its performance with respect to traditional iris imaging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Renu Sharma , Arun Ross

There is renewed interest in using the coherence between beams generated in separate down-converter sources for new applications in imaging, spectroscopy, microscopy and optical coherence tomography (OCT). These schemes make use of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-11-18 Arturo Rojas-Santana , Gerard J. Machado , Dorilian Lopez-Mago , Juan P. Torres

Recent advancements in quantum photonics have driven significant progress in photonic quantum computing (PQC), addressing challenges in scalability, efficiency, and fault tolerance. Experimental efforts have focused on integrated photonic…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Dennis Delali Kwesi Wayo , Leonardo Goliatt , Darvish Ganji

Quantum networks involve entanglement sharing between multiple users. Ideally, any two users would be able to connect regardless of the type of photon source they employ, provided they fulfill the requirements for two-photon interference.…

We report on quantum frequency conversion of near-infrared photons from a wavelength of 854nm to the telecommunication O-band at 1310nm with 8% overall conversion efficiency. Entangled photon pairs at 854nm are generated via type-II…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-05-09 Andreas Lenhard , José Brito , Matthias Bock , Jürgen Eschner , Christoph Becher

Unlike one-photon (first order) intensity correlation, two-photon (second order) intensity correlation is known to be impossible to achieve by any classical means. Over the last several decades, such quantum features have been intensively…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-09-22 Byoung S. Ham

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) microscope (OCM) uses a high-numerical-aperture objective to achieve cellular-level lateral resolution. However, its practical imaging depth range is limited by the depth of focus (DOF). Although…

We propose a method that enables efficient conversion of quantum information frequency between different regions of spectrum of light based on recently demonstrated strong parametric coupling between two narrow-band single-photon pulses…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 A. Gogyan

Optical quantum computing, as well as quantum communication and sensing technology based on quantum correlations are in preparation. These require photodiodes for the detection of about 10^16 photons per second with close to perfect quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Leif Albers , Jan-Malte Michaelsen , Roman Schnabel