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The full Schmidt decomposition of spatiotemporally entangled states generated from spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) has not been carried out until now due to the immense computational complexity arising from the large…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-10 Rakesh Pradhan , Girish Kulkarni

Miniaturised entangled photon sources are highly demanded for the development of integrated quantum photonics. Since the invention of subwavelength optical metasurfaces and their successes at replacing bulky optical components, the…

Parametric down-conversion (PDC) is the established standard for the practical generation of a multiplicity of quantum optical states. These include two-mode squeezed vacuum, heralded non-Gaussian states and entangled photon pairs. Detailed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-06-18 Malte Avenhaus , Benjamin Brecht , Kaisa Laiho , Christine Silberhorn

Spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) has been a key enabling technology in exploring quantum phenomena and their applications for decades. For instance, traditional SPDC, which splits a high energy pump photon into two lower energy…

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is one of the most versatile nonlinear optical techniques for the generation of entangled and correlated single-photon pairs. However, it suffers from very poor efficiency leading to extremely…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-15 Boyuan Jin , Dhananjay Mishra , Christos Argyropoulos

Frequency-multiplexed entangled photon pair sources with narrow bandwidths and high pair generation efficiency are a key enabling technology for quantum networking. We present a simulation-based design study of an integrated photonic…

In spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) based quantum information processing (QIP) experiments, there is a tradeoff between the coincide count rates (i.e. the pumping power of the SPDC), which limits the rate of the protocol, and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-23 Masahiro Takeoka , Rui-Bo Jin , Masahide Sasaki

Quantum sensing encompasses highly promising techniques with diverse applications including noise-reduced imaging, super-resolution microscopy as well as imaging and spectroscopy in challenging spectral ranges. These detection schemes use…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 Felix Riexinger , Mirco Kutas , Björn Haase , Michael Bortz , Georg von Freymann

Parametric down-conversion (PDC) is mostly known in the low-gain (spontaneous) regime, in which the correlated photon pairs are produced. Spontaneous PDC (SPDC) plays a very important role for quantum optics as a variety of quantum states…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-28 Kirill Spasibko

Spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) has proven to be a robust and prominent method for creating non-classical light sources of entangled single-photon pairs. However, such sources suffer from low efficiency due to the inherent…

Optics · Physics 2025-08-27 Sky Semone , Matthew J. Brandsema , Christos Argyropoulos

I investigate the properties of spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) involving co-linear Gaussian spatial modes for the pump and the photon collection optics. Approximate analytical and numerical results are obtained for the peak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-11-10 Ryan S. Bennink

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

Tailoring spectral properties of photon pairs is of great importance for optical quantum information and measurement applications. High-resolution spectral measurement is a key technique for engineering spectral properties of photons,…

Partially spatially coherent qubits are more immune to turbulent atmospheric conditions than coherent qubits, which makes them excellent candidates for free-space quantum communication. In this article, we report the generation of partially…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-26 Preeti Sharma , Sakshi Rao , Bhaskar Kanseri

We provide a toolbox for continuous variables quantum state engineering and characterization of biphoton states produced by spontaneous parametric down conversion in a transverse pump configuration. We show that the control of the pump…

We compute the output of multimode cavity-enhanced spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) for sub-threshold, but otherwise arbitrary, gain. We find analytic Bogoliubov transformations that allow us to calculate arbitrary field…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 Joanna A. Zielińska , Morgan W. Mitchell

We show that a useful connection exists between spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) and sum frequency generation in nonlinear optical waveguides with arbitrary scattering loss, while the same does not hold true for SPDC and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-03 L. G. Helt , M. J. Steel

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is a widely used process to prepare entangled photon pairs. In SPDC, a second-order nonlinear crystal is pumped by a coherent laser beam to generate photon pairs. The photon pairs are usually…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-09-16 Richard Bernecker , Baghdasar Baghdasaryan , Stephan Fritzsche

Diffusion models have transformed the landscape of image generation and now show remarkable potential for image compression. Most of the recent diffusion-based compression methods require training and are tailored for a specific bit-rate.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Noam Elata , Tomer Michaeli , Michael Elad

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is widely used in quantum applications based on photonic entanglement. The efficiency of photon pair generation is often characterized by means of a $sinc(L\Delta k/2)$-function, where $L$ is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-01-04 Baghdasar Baghdasaryan , Fabian Steinlechner , Stephan Fritzsche