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One approach to quantum information processing is to use photons as quantum bits and rely on linear optical elements for most operations. However, some optical nonlinearity is necessary to enable universal quantum computing. Here, we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-11 Prabin Adhikari , Mohammad Hafezi , J. M. Taylor

We study the dynamics of an optomechanical system consisting of a single-mode optical field coupled to a mechanical oscillator, where the nonlinear interaction includes both linear and quadratic terms in the oscillator's position. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-16 Yaqing Xy Wang , Claudio Sanavio , József Zsolt Bernád

Advanced digital signal processing techniques in combination with ultra-wideband balanced coherent detection have enabled a new generation of ultra-high speed fiber-optic communication systems, by moving most of the processing…

Recent quantum technologies utilize complex multidimensional processes that govern the dynamics of quantum systems. We develop an adaptive diagonal-element-probing compression technique that feasibly characterizes any unknown quantum…

We consider the problem of reversing quantum dynamics, with the goal of preserving an initial state's quantum entanglement or classical correlation with a reference system. We exhibit an approximate reversal operation, adapted to the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 H. Barnum , E. Knill

We develop a lensless compressive imaging architecture, which consists of an aperture assembly and a single sensor, without using any lens. An anytime algorithm is proposed to reconstruct images from the compressive measurements; the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-08-17 Xin Yuan , Hong Jiang , Gang Huang , Paul Wilford

We introduce an electro-optic hardware platform for nonlinear activation functions in optical neural networks. The optical-to-optical nonlinearity operates by converting a small portion of the input optical signal into an analog electric…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-09 Ian A. D. Williamson , Tyler W. Hughes , Momchil Minkov , Ben Bartlett , Sunil Pai , Shanhui Fan

We give an overview of recent developments in the problem of reconstructing a band-limited signal from non-uniform sampling from a numerical analysis view point. It is shown that the appropriate design of the finite-dimensional model plays…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-10-20 Thomas Strohmer

Typical optomechanical systems involving optical cavities and mechanical oscillators rely on a coupling that varies linearly with the oscillator displacement. However, recently a coupling varying instead as the square of the mechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 H. Shi , M. Bhattacharya

Many people think of analog computing as a historic dead-end in computing. In fact, nothing could be further from the truth as analog computing - together with quantum computing - has the potential to bring computing to new levels with…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2023-09-11 Bernd Ulmann

Recent research has shown that performance in signal processing tasks can often be significantly improved by using signal models based on sparse representations, where a signal is approximated using a small number of elements from a fixed…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2011-11-18 Adam S. Charles , Pierre Garrigues , Christopher J. Rozell

We present conditions for the efficient simulation of a broad class of optical quantum circuits on a classical machine: this class includes unitary transformations, amplification, noise, and measurements. Various proposed schemes for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stephen D. Bartlett , Barry C. Sanders

Background noise in many fields such as medical imaging poses significant challenges for accurate diagnosis, prompting the development of denoising algorithms. Traditional methodologies, however, often struggle to address the complexities…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-03 Amirreza Hashemi , Sayantan Dutta , Bertrand Georgeot , Denis Kouame , Hamid Sabet

The recent advances in modelling nonlinear interference of systems operating beyond the C-band are discussed. Estimation accuracy as well as computational complexity of current approaches are compared and addressed.

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-08 Daniel Semrau , Robert I. Killey , Polina Bayvel

I propose a superoscillation measurement method for subdiffraction incoherent optical sources, with potential applications in astronomy, remote sensing, fluorescence microscopy, and spectroscopy. The proposal, based on coherent optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-10-10 Mankei Tsang

Quantum imaging with undetected light has recently emerged as a technique in which quantum correlations and nonlinear interferometry are combined to decouple illumination and detection paths. This approach has been more recently extended…

Digital-analog is a universal quantum computing paradigm which employs the natural entangling Hamiltonian of the system and single-qubit gates as resources. Here, we study the stability of these protocols against Hamiltonian…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-10 Mikel Garcia-de-Andoin , Alatz Álvarez-Ahedo , Adrián Franco-Rubio , Mikel Sanz

To obtain the best resolution for any measurement there is an ever-present challenge to achieve maximal differentiation between signal and noise over as fine of sampling dimensions as possible. In diffraction science these issues are…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-10-23 James Weng , Niklas B. Thompson , Christopher Folmar , James D. Martin , Christina Hoffman

Hyperspectral imaging is a powerful technology that is plagued by large dimensionality. Herein, we explore a way to combat that hindrance via non-contiguous and contiguous (simpler to realize sensor) band grouping for dimensionality…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-05-31 Muhammad Aminul Islam , Derek T. Anderson , John E. Ball , Nicolas H. Younan

Analog computers can be revived as a feasible technology platform for low precision, energy efficient and fast computing. We justify this statement by measuring the performance of a modern analog computer and comparing it with that of…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-20 Sven Köppel , Bernd Ulmann , Lars Heimann , Dirk Killat