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We consider the coherent control of a quantum bit by the use of short pulses with finite duration \tau_p. By shaping the pulse, we perturbatively decouple the dynamics of the bath from the dynamics of the quantum bit during the pulse. Such…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-02-09 Benedikt Fauseweh , Stefano Pasini , Götz S. Uhrig

We explore theoretically the feasibility of using frequency conversion by sum- or difference-frequency generation, enabled by three- wave-mixing, for selectively multiplexing orthogonal input waveforms that overlap in time and frequency.…

Squeezed light has evolved into a powerful tool for quantum technology, ranging from quantum enhanced sensing and quantum state engineering based on partial post-selection techniques. The pulsed generation of squeezed light is of particular…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-03 Chaohan Cui , Christos N. Gagatsos , Saikat Guha , Linran Fan

High-fidelity state transfer is fundamentally limited by time-reversal symmetry: one qubit emits a photon with a certain temporal pulse shape, whereas a second qubit requires the time-reversed pulse shape to efficiently absorb this photon.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-24 Zeyu Kuang , Oliver Diekmann , Lorenz Fischer , Stefan Rotter , Carlos Gonzalez-Ballestero

High-dimensional encodings based on temporal modes (TMs) of photonic quantum states provide the foundations for a highly versatile and efficient quantum information science (QIS) framework. Here, we demonstrate a crucial building block for…

We present an efficient scheme for the generation and control of a degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) signal in a N-type inhomogeneously broadened 85Rb atomic system. We observe the propagation dynamics of the generated FWM signal along with…

Optics · Physics 2021-02-08 Nawaz Sarif Mallick , Tarak Nath Dey

A novel time-reversal subwavelength transmission technique, based on pulse shaping circuits (PSCs), is proposed. Compared to previously reported approaches, this technique removes the need for complex or electrically large electromagnetic…

Optics · Physics 2015-10-28 Shuai Ding , Rui Zang , Lianfeng Zou , Bingzhong Wang , Christophe Caloz

Frequency-encoded quantum information offers intriguing opportunities for quantum communications and networking, with the quantum frequency processor paradigm -- based on electro-optic phase modulators and Fourier-transform pulse shapers --…

Lightwave pulse shaping in the picosecond regime has remained unaddressed because it resides beyond the limits of state-of-the-art techniques, either due to its inherently narrow spectral content or fundamental speed limitations in…

Optics · Physics 2025-03-10 Randy Lemons , Jack Hirschman , Hao Zhang , Charles Durfee , Sergio Carbajo

The ability to manipulate the spectral-temporal waveform of optical pulses has enabled a wide range of applications from ultrafast spectroscopy to high-speed communications. Extending these concepts to quantum light has the potential to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Michal Karpinski , Michal Jachura , Laura J. Wright , Brian J. Smith

Light-matter interactions with quantum dots have been extensively studied to harness key quantum properties of photons, such as indistinguishability and entanglement. In this theoretical work, we exploit the atomic-like four-level structure…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-18 Mohamed Meguebel , Maxime Federico , Simone Felicetti , Nadia Belabas , Nicolas Fabre

Transmission through photoexcited semiconductors is used to temporally and spectrally shape a Terahertz pulse. By adjusting the optical pump-THz probe delay, we experimentally introduce a polar asymmetry in the pulse profile as high as 92%.…

A non-dispersing wave packet has been attracting much interest from various scientific and technological viewpoints. However, most quantum systems are accompanied by anharmonicity, so that retardation of quantum wave-packet dispersion is…

We demonstrate a dispersive measurement pulse shaping technique that allows for arbitrarily fast quantum non-demolition, single-quadrature measurements of non-linear systems and unconditionally leaves the measurement resonator empty. For…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-13 Felix Motzoi , Lukas Buchmann , Christian DIckel

In the domain of variational quantum algorithms, quantum Fourier models (QFMs) provide a mathematically well defined structure for quantum machine learning (QML). There has been a substantial amount of work on the scalability and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-07 Melvin Strobl , Maja Franz , Lukas Scheller , Eileen Kuehn , Wolfgang Mauerer , Achim Streit

One of the leading approaches to large-scale quantum information processing (QIP) is the continuous-variable (CV) scheme based on time multiplexing (TM). As a fundamental building block for this approach, quantum light sources to…

We propose a method to deterministically prepare a desired quantum state in a one-dimensional (1D) continuum by a shaped photon pulse. This method is based on time-reverse of the quantum emission process. We show that the desired quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Zeyang Liao , M. Suhail Zubairy

Performing computational tasks with wave-based devices is becoming a groundbreaking paradigm that can open new opportunities for the next generation of efficient analogue and digital computing systems. Decision-making processes for…

Applied Physics · Physics 2023-10-16 Ross Glyn MacDonald , Alex Yakovlev , Victor Pacheco-Peña

Parametric down-conversion in a nonlinear crystal is a widely employed technique for generating quadrature squeezed light with multiple modes, which finds applications in quantum metrology, quantum information and communication. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-29 Valentin Averchenko , Danil Malyshev , Kirill Tikhonov

We apply inverse design methods to produce two-dimensional plasma metamaterial (PMM) devices. Backpropagated finite difference frequency domain (FDFD) simulations are used to design waveguides and demultiplexers operating under both…