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Quantum-correlated interferometer is a newly emerging tool in quantum technology that offers classical-limit-breaking phase sensitivity. But to date, there exists a configurational bottleneck for its practicability due to the low…

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We propose methods to perform intensity interferometry of photons having two different wavelengths. Distinguishable particles typically cannot interfere with each other, but we overcome that obstacle by processing the particles via…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-01 Jordan Cotler , Frank Wilczek , Victoria Borish

We use a fiber based double slit Young interferometer for studying the far-field spatial distribution of the two-photon coincidence rate (coincidence pattern) for various quantum states with different degree of spatial entanglement. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Ivan B. Bobrov , Dmitry A. Kalashnikov , Leonid A. Krivitsky

Two-photon processes are crucial in applications like microscopy and microfabrication, but their low cross-section requires intense illumination and limits, e.g., the penetration depth in nonlinear microscopy. Entangled states have been…

Quantum light is increasingly recognized as a promising resource for developing optical measurement techniques. Particular attention has been paid to enhancing the precision of the measurements beyond classical techniques by using…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-10-03 Yuta Fujihashi , Kuniyuki Miwa , Masahiro Higashi , 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 entanglement, a fundamental concept in quantum mechanics, lies at the heart of many current and future quantum technologies. A pivotal task is generation and control of diverse quantum entangled states in a more compact and flexible…

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

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

When a photon is detected after passing through an interferometer one might wonder which path it took, and a meaningful answer can only be given if one has the means of monitoring the photon's whereabouts. We report the realization of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-09 Yink Loong Len , Jibo Dai , Berthold-Georg Englert , Leonid A. Krivitsky

Optical interferometry has been a long-standing setup for characterization of quantum states of light. Both the linear and the nonlinear interferences can provide information about the light statistics an underlying detail of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-04 Konstantin E. Dorfman , Shahaf Asban , Bing Gu , Shaul Mukamel

Pairs of photons entangled in their time-frequency degree of freedom are of great interest in quantum optics research and applications, due to their relative ease of generation and their high capacity for encoding information. Here we…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-02-23 Sofiane Merkouche , Valérian Thiel , Brian J. Smith

Advancements in physics are often motivated/accompanied by advancements in our precision measurements abilities. The current generation of atomic and optical interferometers is limited by shot noise, a fundamental limit when estimating a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-11-20 Luca Pezze' , Augusto Smerzi

The quantum world distinguishes itself from the classical world by being governed by probability amplitudes rather than probabilities. On a single-particle level, quantum phases can be manipulated leading to observable interference patterns…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-08-11 Nahid Talebi , Iva Březinová

Entangling independent photons is not only of fundamental interest but also of crucial importance for quantum information science. Two-photon interference is a major method to entangle independent identical photons. If two photons are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Tian-Ming Zhao , Han Zhang , Jian Yang , Zi-Ru Sang , Xiao Jiang , Xiao-Hui Bao , Jian-Wei Pan

Which-path information of a quantum particle in interferometers is the key to infer the past of quantum particle. It arises many extensive discussions including quantum complementarity and path-visibility relation. The basic of these…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-08-31 Jinxian Guo , Qizhang Yuan , Yuan Wu , Weiping Zhang

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

Photon-pair correlations in spontaneous parametric down conversion are ubiquitous in quantum photonics. The ability to engineer their properties for optimising a specific task is essential, but often challenging in practice. We demonstrate…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-11 Chloé Vernière , Hugo Defienne

Two-photon excitation spectroscopy is a nonlinear technique that has gained rapidly in interest and significance for studying the complex energy-level structure and transition probabilities of materials. While the conventional spectroscopy…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Yuanyuan Chen , Roberto de J. León-Montiel , Lixiang Chen

Entangled photons have the remarkable ability to be more sensitive to signal and less sensitive to noise than classical light. Joint photons can sample an object collectively, resulting in faster phase accumulation and higher spatial…

Optics · Physics 2015-09-04 Chien-Hung Lu , Matthew Reichert , Xiaohang Sun , Jason W. Fleischer