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While two-photon absorption (TPA) and other forms of nonlinear interactions of molecules with isolated time-frequency-entangled photon pairs (EPP) have been predicted to display a variety of fascinating effects, their potential use in…

Incoherent imaging, including fluorescence and absorption microscopy, is often limited by weak signals and resolution constraints -- notoriously, Rayleigh's curse. We investigate how spatially structured quantum probes, combined with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-13 Anthony J. Brady , Zihao Gong , Alexey V. Gorshkov , Saikat Guha

Entangled photons provide transformative new paths in the fields of communication, sensing, and computing. However, when entangled photons propagate through a complex medium such as a biological tissue or a turbulent atmosphere, their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-08-30 Ronen Shekel , Ohad Lib , Yaron Bromberg

In analogy with the spin-squeezing inequality of Wang and Sanders [Physical Review A 68, 012101 (2003)], we find inequalities describing macroscopic polarization correlations that are obeyed by all classical fields, and whose violation…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-10-10 Federica A. Beduini , Morgan W. Mitchell

We experimentally demonstrate two-photon absorption (TPA) with broadband down-converted light (squeezed vacuum). Although incoherent and exhibiting the statistics of a thermal noise, broadband down-converted light can induce TPA with the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-12-06 Barak Dayan , Avi Pe'er , Asher A. Friesem , Yaron Silberberg

We study a general theory on the interference of two-photon wavepacket in a beam splitter (BS). We find that the perfect coalescence interference requires a symmetric spectrum of two-photon wavepacket which can be entangled or un-entangled.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Kaige Wang

Traditional Ramsey spectroscopy has the frequency resolution $2\pi/T$, where $T$ is the time separation between two light fields. Using squeezed states and two-atom excitation joint detection, we present a new scheme achieving a higher…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-15 Kenan Qu , G. S. Agarwal

Entangled two-photon absorption (ETPA) may be a viable technique to continuously drive an excited state population in plasma for high-bandwidth spectroscopy measurements of localized plasma turbulence or impurity density. Classical…

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) has a wide range of applications from environmental monitoring to biotechnology. Current snapshot HSI techniques all require a trade-off between spatial and spectral resolution and are thus unable to achieve high…

Optics · Physics 2023-01-11 Yingwen Zhang , Duncan England , Benjamin Sussman

We study the harmonic entanglement and squeezing in a two-mode radiation produced in a degenerate parametric down conversion process coupled to a two-mode vacuum reservoir employing the linearization procedure. It is found that there is a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-07-26 Sintayehu Tesfa

Fluorescence lifetime experiments are a standard approach for measuring excited state dynamics and local environment effects. Here, we show that entangled photon pairs produced from a continuous-wave (CW) laser diode can replicate pulsed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-05-15 Nathan Harper , Bryce P. Hickam , Manni He , Scott K. Cushing

We propose a novel squeezed light source capable of meeting the stringent requirements of continuous variable quantum sampling. Using the effective $\chi_2$ interaction induced by a strong driving beam in the presence of the $\chi_3$…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-12-18 Z. Vernon , N. Quesada , M. Liscidini , B. Morrison , M. Menotti , K. Tan , J. E. Sipe

The study of entangled states has greatly improved the basic understanding about two-photon interferometry. Two-photon interference is not the interference of two photons but the result of superposition among indistinguishable two-photon…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Giuliano Scarcelli , Alejandra Valencia , Yanhua Shih

When a low flux of time-frequency-entangled photon pairs (EPP) illuminates a two-photon transition, the rate of two-photon absorption (TPA) can be enhanced considerably by the quantum nature of photon number correlations and frequency…

Entangled two-photon absorption spectroscopy (TPA) has been widely recognized as a powerful tool for revealing relevant information about the structure of complex molecular systems. However, to date, the experimental implementation of this…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-07-10 Roberto de J. León-Montiel , Jiří Svozilík , Juan P. Torres , Alfred B. U'Ren

Ultraviolet spectroscopy provides unique insights into the structure of matter with applications ranging from fundamental tests to photochemistry in the earth's atmosphere and astronomical observations from space telescopes. At longer…

Optics · Physics 2024-03-08 Bingxin Xu , Zaijun Chen , Theodor W. Hänsch , Nathalie Picqué

Entangled two-photon absorption can enable a linear scaling of fluorescence emission with the excitation power. In comparison to classical two-photon absorption with a quadratic scaling, this can allow fluorescence imaging or…

We present the first measurement of squeezed-state entanglement between the twin beams produced in an Optical Parametric Oscillator (OPO) operating above threshold. Besides the usual squeezing in the intensity difference between the twin…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. S. Villar , L. S. Cruz , K. N. Cassemiro , M. Martinelli , P. Nussenzveig

Random scattering is usually viewed as a serious nuisance in optical imaging, and needs to be prevented in the conventional imaging scheme based on single-photon interference. Here we proposed a two-photon imaging scheme with the widely…

Optics · Physics 2018-09-25 Peilong Hong

Improving the image contrast of objects immersed in weakly scattering media can be achieved using various strategies. One common approach is to reject events associated with scattered photons in favor of the detection of ballistic photons.…