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Storage and retrieval of parametric down-conversion (PDC) photons are demonstrated with electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT). Extreme frequency filtering is performed for THz order of broadband PDC light and the frequency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 K. Akiba , K. Kashiwagi , M. Arikawa , M. Kozuma

The process of spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in nonlinear crystals makes it fairly easy to generate entangled photon states. It has been known for some time that the conversion efficiency can be improved by employing…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-08-23 Jonas Soderholm , Keiichi Hirano , Shigehiko Mori , Shuichiro Inoue , Sunao Kurimura

Entanglement of high dimensional states is becoming increasingly important for quantum communication and computing. The most common source of entangled photons is spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC), where the degree of frequency…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 C. Okoth , E. Kovlakov , F. Boensel , A. Cavanna , S. Straupe , S. P. Kulik , M. V. Chekhova

We generate single-photon catalyzed coherent states (SPCCSs) by means of quantum-optical catalysis based on the beam splitter (BS) or the parametric amplifier (PA). These states are obtained in one of the BS (or PA) output channels if a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-22 Xue-xiang Xu , Hong-chun Yuan

Quantum light sources are characterized by their distinctive statistical distribution of photons. For example, single photons and correlated photon pairs exhibit antibunching and reduced variance in the number distribution that is…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-25 Sunil Mittal , Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt , Mohammad Hafezi

In quantum optics, the postselection amplitude of a nondegenerate parametric down-conversion (PDC) process is linked to a beamsplitter (BS) via partial time reversal, up to a normalization coefficient which is related to the parametric gain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Yi Zheng , Jin-Shi Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

Harnessing topological effects offers a promising route to protect quantum states of light from imperfections, potentially enabling more robust platforms for quantum information processing. This capability is particularly relevant for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 A. Zecchetto , J. -R. Coudevylle , M. Morassi , A. Lemaître , M. I. Amanti , S. Ducci , F. Baboux

Quantum technologies are powered by platforms to generate complex non-classical states of matter or light to realize applications. We investigate the non-classical properties of high-harmonic generation in semiconductors, an emerging…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-18 David Theidel , Mackrine Nahra , Ilya Karuseichyk , Houssna Griguer , Mateusz Weis , Hamed Merdji

The state of the signal-idler photon pair of spontaneous parametric down conversion(SPDC) is a typical nonlocal entangled pure state with zero entropy. The precise correlation of the subsystems is completely described by the state. However,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dmitry V. Strekalov , Yoon-Ho Kim , Yanhua Shih

Third order parametric down-conversion describes a class of nonlinear processes in which a pump photon can be down-converted into triplets of photons. It has been identified as a source of non-classical light, with capabilities beyond those…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-07-27 Milica Banic , Marco Liscidini , J. E. Sipe

Photon subtraction and addition are essential non-Gaussian processes in quantum optics, where conventional methods using linear optics and number-resolving detection often suffer from low success probability. Here, we introduce the concept…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-11 Haoyuan Luo , Parth S. Shah , Frank Yang , Mohammad Mirhosseini , Sahand Mahmoodian

The comet-tail-like interference patterns are observed using photons from the spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) process. The patterns are caused by the angular-spectrum-dependent interference and the diffraction of a blazed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-06-08 Chen Yang , Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Yan Li , Yin-Hai Li , Su-Jian Niu , Zheng Ge , Guang-Can Guo , Bao-Sen Shi

The Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) interference is one of the most intriguing quantum optical phenomena and crucial in performing quantum optical communication and computation tasks. Lately, twin beam emitters such as those relying on the process of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-23 K. Laiho , T. Dirmeier , G. Shafiee , Ch. Marquardt

A quantum optical model for the high-order harmonic generation is presented, in which both the exciting field and the high harmonic modes are quantized, while the target material appears via parameters only. As a consequence, the model is…

Multi-dimensional entangled states have been proven to be more powerful in some quantum information process. In this paper, down-converted photons from spontaneous parametric down conversion(SPDC) are used to engineer multi-dimensional…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-26 Xi-Feng Ren , Guo-Ping Guo , Jian Li , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo

We performed a second-order spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) experiment in a Type II phase-matched KTiOPO4 crystal pumped at 532 nm giving birth to a signal beam at 1037 nm and an idler one at 1092 nm along the x-axis of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-02-10 Julien Bertrand , Véronique Boutou , Benoît Boulanger

In this paper, the crossing symmetry of the photons, from spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) phenomena in nonlinear crystals, is used for the development of a new geometric optics based on quantum kinematic correlations. On this…

Optics · Physics 2008-10-21 D. B. Ion , P. Constantin , M. L. Ion

In this letter, we study spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in a periodically poled structure composed of two linearly uncoupled resonators that are nonlinearly coupled via a Mach-Zehnder interferometer. The device does not…

Optics · Physics 2024-06-27 Alessia Stefano , Luca Zatti , Marco Liscidini

Single-photon and correlated two-photon sources are important elements for optical information systems. Nonlinear downconversion light sources are robust and stable emitters of single photons and entangled photon pairs. However, the rate of…

Optics · Physics 2017-09-22 Artur R. Davoyan , Harry A. Atwater

Hyperentangled photonic states - exhibiting nonclassical correlations in several degrees of freedom - offer improved performance of quantum optical communication and computation schemes. Experimentally, a hyperentanglement of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-21 Michał Lipka , Michał Parniak