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Quantum metrology utilizes entanglement for improving the sensitivity of measurements. Up to now the focus has been on the measurement of just one out of two non-commuting observables. Here we demonstrate a laser interferometer that…

The contrast of an image can be degraded by the presence of background light and sensor noise. To overcome this degradation, quantum illumination protocols have been theorised (Science 321 (2008), Physics Review Letters 101 (2008)) that…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-09-21 Thomas Gregory , Paul-Antoine Moreau , Ermes Toninelli , Miles J. Padgett

Quantum Entanglement is widely regarded as one of the most prominent features of quantum mechanics and quantum information science. Although, photonic entanglement is routinely studied in many experiments nowadays, its signature has been…

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

The longwave infrared (LWIR) region of the spectrum spans 8 to 14 {\mu}m and enables high-performance sensing and imaging for detection, ranging, and monitoring. Chip-scale integrated LWIR photonics has enormous potential for real-time…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-02 Dingding Ren , Chao Dong , David Burghoff

The need for semiconductor technology for crystalline silicon of the highest purity and homogeneity has provided samples exhibiting low optical absorption in the infrared range. Such silicon has become the basis for photonic elements in the…

Quantum computers promise to enhance machine learning for practical applications. Quantum machine learning for real-world data has to handle extensive amounts of high-dimensional data. However, conventional methods for measuring quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-02-10 Tobias Haug , Chris N. Self , M. S. Kim

The Infrared Camera (IRC) is one of the two instruments on board the AKARI satellite. In addition to deep imaging from 1.8-26.5um for the pointed observation mode of the AKARI, it has a spectroscopic capability in its spectral range. By…

We demonstrate a new method for measuring radio frequency (RF) electric fields based on quantum interference in an atom. Using a bright resonance prepared within an electromagnetically induced transparency window we are able to achieve a…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2012-05-22 J. Sedlacek , A. Schwettmann , H. Kübler , R. Löw , T. Pfau , J. P. Shaffer

Classical measurement strategies in many areas are approaching their maximum resolution and sensitivity levels, but these levels often still fall far short of the ultimate limits allowed by the laws of physics. To go further, strategies…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 David S. Simon

An imaging interferometer was created in a two-dimensional electron gas by reflecting electron waves emitted from a quantum point contact (QPC) with a circular mirror. Images of electron flow obtained with a scanning probe microscope at…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. J. LeRoy , A. C. Bleszynski , K. E. Aidala , R. M. Westervelt , A. Kalben , E. J. Heller , S. E. J. Shaw , K. D. Maranowski , A. C. Gossard

Quantum entanglement and squeezing have significantly improved phase estimation and imaging in interferometric settings beyond the classical limits. However, for a wide class of non-interferometric phase imaging/retrieval methods vastly…

We present a new imaging technique, swept-angle synthetic wavelength interferometry, for full-field micron-scale 3D sensing. As in conventional synthetic wavelength interferometry, our technique uses light consisting of two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Alankar Kotwal , Anat Levin , Ioannis Gkioulekas

Quantum illumination (QI) and quantum radar have emerged as potentially groundbreaking technologies, leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics to revolutionise the field of remote sensing and target detection. The protocol,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-02 Athena Karsa , Alasdair Fletcher , Gaetana Spedalieri , Stefano Pirandola

In quantum computing, the indirect measurement of unitary operators such as the Hadamard test plays a significant role in many algorithms. However, in certain cases, the indirect measurement can be reduced to the direct measurement, where a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-08-14 Kosuke Mitarai , Keisuke Fujii

Structured illumination can reject out-of-focus signal from a sample, enabling high-speed and high-contrast imaging over large areas with widefield detection optics. Currently, this optical-sectioning technique is limited by image…

Measuring the dispersion of photonic devices with small dispersion-length products is challenging due to the phase-sensitive, and alignment-intensive nature of conventional methods. In this letter, we demonstrate a quantum technique to…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-09-17 Arash Riazi , Eric Y. Zhu , Changjia Chen , Alexey V. Gladyshev , Peter G. Kazansky , Li Qian

Spectroscopy and imaging in the mid-infrared (2.5 $\mu$m $\sim$ $\lambda$ $\sim$ 25 $\mu$m) is bedevilled by the presence of a strong 300 K thermal background at room temperature that makes IR detectors decades noisier than can be readily…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-11-28 Yue Ma , Nathan Gemmell , Emma Pearce , Rupert Oulton , Chris Phillips

Expanding far beyond traditional applications in optical interconnects at telecommunications wavelengths, the silicon nanophotonic integrated circuit platform has recently proven its merits for working with mid-infrared (mid-IR) optical…

Properties of quantum states have disclosed new and revolutionary technologies, ranging from quantum information to quantum imaging. This last field is addressed to overcome limits of classical imaging by exploiting specific properties of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-19 Giorgio Brida , Marco Genovese , Alice Meda , Ivano Ruo Berchera

Ultra-sensitive short-wave infrared (SWIR) photon detection is a crucial aspect of ongoing research in quantum technology. However, developing such detectors on a CMOS-compatible silicon technological platform has been challenging due to…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-15 P. Sudha , S. Miyagawa , A. Samanta , D. Moraru