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Photonic integrated circuits utilize planar waveguides to process light on a chip, encompassing functions like generation, routing, modulation, and detection. Similar to the advancements in the electronics industry, photonics research is…

General-purpose programmable photonic processors offer a flexible foundation for integrating various functionalities within a single chip. A two-dimensional hexagonal waveguide mesh of Mach Zehnder interferometers has been shown to have…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-03 Jacek Gosciniak

Integrated quantum photonics requires compact, efficient, and low-power phase modulators. While silicon nitride (SiN) is a promising platform, existing modulators suffer from high power consumption, thermal crosstalk, or high driving…

A crucial challenge to the scaling up of linear optical interferometers is the presence of defective optical components resulting from inevitable imperfections in fabrication and packaging. This work presents a method for circumventing such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-19 Ish Dhand

Quantum metrology overcomes standard precision limits by exploiting collective quantum superpositions of physical systems used for sensing, with the prominent example of non-classical multiphoton states improving interferometric techniques.…

In high-performance RF photonic systems, the Electro-Optic (EO) modulators play a critical role as a key component, requiring low SWaP-C and high linearity. While traditional lithium niobate (LiNbO$_3$) Mach-Zehnder Modulators (MZMs) have…

Optics · Physics 2023-08-31 Md Jubayer Shawon , Vishal Saxena

We study the entanglement between the two beams exiting a Mach-Zehnder interferometer fed by a couple of squeezed-coherent states with arbitrary squeezing parameter. The quantum correlations at the output are function of the internal…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Matteo G. A. Paris

We address precision of optical interferometers fed by Gaussian states and involving passive and/or active elements, such as beam splitters, photodetectors and optical parametric amplifiers. We first address the ultimate bounds to precision…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Carlo Sparaciari , Stefano Olivares , Matteo G. A. Paris

We use an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer to explore the non-equilibrium coherence of the electron waves within the edge-states that form in the integral quantum Hall effect. The visibility of the interference as a function of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-03 E. Bieri , M. Weiss , O. Goktas , M. Hauser , S. Csonka , S. Oberholzer , C. Schonenberger

We have demonstrated displacement- and frequency-noise free laser interferometry (DFI) by partially implementing a recently proposed optical configuration using bi-directional Mach-Zehnder interferometers (MZI). This partial implementation,…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2008-11-26 Shuichi Sato , Seiji Kawamura , Keiko Kokeyama , Robert L. Ward , Yanbei Chen , Archana Pai , Kentaro Somiya

We propose an alternative scheme for phase estimation in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) with photon recycling. It is demonstrated that with the same coherent-state input and homodyne detection, our proposal possesses a phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-20 Dong Li , Chun-Hua Yuan , Xiaoping Ma , Qingle Wang , Hwang Lee , Yao Yao , Weiping Zhang

This paper presents a quantum efficiency measurement setup based on a 2D motorized stage, a wide spectrum xenon lamp, a beam splitter system, and two calibrated photo-diodes for measuring the quantum efficiency (QE) of photomultiplier tubes…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-12-18 P. Migliozzi , C. M. Mollo , A. Simonelli

Optical switches are one of the most important elements of integrated photonics. Here, we designed, fabricated and characterized several nanophotonic optical switches (NOSs) in silicon that exhibit ultra-compact footprint, along with…

Optics · Physics 2019-04-02 Apratim Majumder , Mark Mondol , Trisha L. Andrew , Rajesh Menon

We investigate an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer with high visibility in the quantum Hall regime. The superposition of the electrostatic potentials from a quantum point contact (QPC) and the residual disorder potential from doping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 L. V. Litvin , A. Helzel , H. -P. Tranitz , W. Wegscheider , C. Strunk

We present a method for intrusion detection which is based on the Mach-Zehnder interference effect. This device provides monitored surveillance by continuously measuring the intensity of light collected by a pair of photodetectors. We find…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-03-28 C. Allen Bishop , Travis S. Humble , Ryan S. Bennink , Brian P. Williams

We solve the general problem of determining, through imaging, the three-dimensional positions of $N$ weak incoherent point-like emitters in an arbitrary spatial configuration. We show that a structured measurement strategy in which a linear…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-25 Cosmo Lupo , Zixin Huang , Pieter Kok

We have built and operated an atom interferometer of the Mach-Zehnder type. The atomic wave is a supersonic beam of lithium seeded in argon and the mirrors and beam-splitters for the atomic wave are based on elastic Bragg diffraction on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-08-16 Alain Miffre , Marion Jacquey , Matthias Büchner , Gérard Trenec , Jacques Vigue

We present a high efficiency, high resolution on-chip filterbank spectrometer designed for line intensity mapping and broadband wave-like dark matter searches. Existing superconducting filterbank architectures used by the mm-wave community…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-29 Oliver Jeong

We study theoretically electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometers built from integer quantum Hall edge states, showing that the results of recent experiments can be understood in terms of multiparticle interference effects. These experiments…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-05-27 D. L. Kovrizhin , J. T. Chalker

Subwavelength resonators, ranging from single atoms to metallic nanoparticles, typically exhibit a narrow-bandwidth response to optical excitations. We computationally design and experimentally synthesize tailored distributions of silver…