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Quantum correlation, such as entanglement and squeezing have shown to improve phase estimation in interferometric setups on one side, and non-interferometric imaging scheme of amplitude object on the other. In the last case, quantum…

High-dimensional entanglement in the form of transverse spatial correlation between a pair of photons generated via spontaneous parametric downconversion is not only a valuable resource in many academic and real-life applications but also…

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Entangled-photon coincidence imaging is a method to nonlocally image an object by transmitting a pair of entangled photons through the object and a reference optical system, respectively. The image of the object can be extracted from the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-08 Jing Cheng , Shensheng Han

Distributed quantum metrology can enhance the sensitivity for sensing spatially distributed parameters beyond the classical limits. Here we demonstrate distributed quantum phase estimation with discrete variables to achieve Heisenberg limit…

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Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-13 Robert Fickler , Mario Krenn , Radek Lapkiewicz , Sven Ramelow , Anton Zeilinger

Recent theoretical studies in quantum spectroscopy have emphasized the potential of non-classical correlations in entangled photon pairs for selectively targeting specific nonlinear optical processes in nonlinear optical responses. However,…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2026-04-21 Yuta Fujihashi , Ozora Iso , Ryosuke Shimizu , Akihito Ishizaki

Entangled photons can be used to make measurements with an accuracy beyond that possible with classical light. While most implementations of quantum metrology have used states made up of a single colour of photons, we show that entangled…

Quantum imaging is an advanced method for microscopy or investigating the optical properties of materials or bio-medical inspections with high accuracy, low noise, and extremely low photo-damage. In previous work, we proposed a quantum…

Optics · Physics 2025-05-09 Mousume Samad , Maki Shimizu , Yasuto Hijikata

Frequency non-degenerate entangled photon pairs have been employed in quantum communication, imaging, and sensing. To characterize quantum entangled state with long-wavelength (infrared, IR or even terahertz, THz) photon, one needs to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Yiquan Yang , Peiyu Zhang , Xiao-Song Ma

Experimental demonstrations of entangled quantum images produced through parametric downconversion have so far been confined to studying two photon correlations. Here we show that multiphoton correlations between quantum images are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Serge Massar , Fabrice Devaux , Eric Lantz

Quantum correlation of two-photon states has been utilized to suppress the environmental noise in imaging down to the single-photon level. However, the size of the coherence area of photon pairs limits the applications of quantum imaging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-06-01 Dianzhen Cui , X. X. Yi , Li-Ping Yang

Sub-picosecond coincidence timing from nonlocal intensity interference of entangled photons allows quantum interferometry for plasmas. Using a warm plasma dispersion relation, we correlate phase measurement sensitivity with different plasma…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-07-08 Zhehui Wang , Yanhua Shih

Imaging with quantum states of light promises advantages over classical approaches in terms of resolution, signal-to-noise ratio and sensitivity. However, quantum detectors are particularly sensitive sources of classical noise that can…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-16 Hugo Defienne , Matthew Reichert , Jason W Fleischer , Daniele Faccio

A bipartite multiphoton entangled state is created through stimulated parametric down-conversion of strong laser pulses in a nonlinear crystal. It is shown how detectors that do not resolve photon number can be used to analyze such…

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Quantum imaging with undetected photons spatially transfers amplitude and phase information from one spectral region of physical interest to another spectral region that is easy to detect. The photon energy of the two spectral regions can,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-06-24 Mirco Kutas , Felix Riexinger , Jens Klier , Daniel Molter , Georg von Freymann

We report the first experimental observation of quantum holographic imaging with entangled photon pairs, generated in a spontaneous parametric down-conversion process. The signal photons play both roles of "object wave" and "reference wave"…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Xin-Bing Song , De-Qin Xu , Hai-Bo Wang , Jun Xiong , Xiangdong Zhang , De-Zhong Cao , Kaige Wang

We report results of two-photon quantum holography where spatial information stored in phase holograms is retrieved by measuring quantum spatial correlations between two images formed by spatially entangled twin photons with a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-04-03 Fabrice Devaux , Alexis Mosset , Florent Bassignot , Eric Lantz

We demonstrate optical interferometry beyond the limits imposed by the photon wavelength using 'triggered' entangled photon pairs from a semiconductor quantum dot. Interference fringes of the entangled biphoton state reveals a periodicity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-28 R. M. Stevenson , A. J. Hudson , R. J. Young , P. Atkinson , K. Cooper , D. A. Ritchie , A. J. Shields

We present a technique to completely characterise the spectral-temporal wave function of a broadband photon pair using spectral-shearing interferometry. Our method is fully self-referencing and is generalisable across a wide range of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-09-12 Alex O. C. Davis , Valerian Thiel , Brian J. Smith