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Single-photon creation through parametric downconversion underpins quantum technology for quantum sensing and imaging. Here we numerically study the creation of single photons in the near- and mid-infrared regime from 1.5 - 12 um in a range…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-11-15 Richard McCracken , Francesco Graffitti , Alessandro Fedrizzi

Mid-infrared spectrum can be recorded from almost any material making the mid-infrared spectroscopy an extremely important and widely used sample characterization and analytical technique. However, sensitivity photoconductive detectors…

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

Cavity-enhanced Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is capable of efficient generation of single photons with suitable spectral properties for interfacing with the atoms. However, beside the remarkable progress of this technique,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-10-29 Amir Moqanaki , Francesco Massa , Philip Walther

Detailed investigations of single photon 1st-order interferences of separated emitters allow for analyzing the role of the mode function in quantum optics. In an earlier Young's double slit experiment using a higher spatial light mode some…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-01-06 Axel Heuer , Sebastian Raabe , Ralf Menzel

Nonlinear interferometers with correlated photons hold a promise to advance optical characterization and metrology techniques by improving their performance and affordability. Nonlinear interferometers offer the sub-shot noise phase…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-13 Anna V. Paterova , Leonid A. Krivitsky

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…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Wei Du , Shuhe Wu , Dong Zhang , Jun Chen , Yiquan Yang , Peiyu Yang , Jinxian Guo , Guzhi Bao , Weiping Zhang

We propose a high-precision phase estimation scheme in a hybrid interferometer by synergistically combining a Kerr nonlinear phase shifter and multi-photon subtraction operations. Using a coherent state and a vacuum state as input…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Lifen Guo , Qingqian Kang , Zekun Zhao , Jifeng Sun , Teng Zhao , Cunjin Liu , Xin Su , Liyun Hu

Quantum frequency conversion (QFC) is essential for bridging the spectral gap between stationary qubits and low-loss optical communication channels. In this work, we demonstrate a short-wavelength-pumping QFC with the first-order…

Entangled photon sources with simultaneously near-unity heralding efficiency and indistinguishability are the fundamental elements for scalable photonic quantum technologies. We design and realize a degenerate entangled-photon source from…

Quantum phenomena such as entanglement can improve fundamental limits on the sensitivity of a measurement probe. In optical interferometry, a probe consisting of $N$ entangled photons provides up to a $\sqrt{N}$ enhancement in phase…

Quantum entanglement has the potential to revolutionize the entire field of interferometric sensing by providing many orders of magnitude improvement in interferometer sensitivity. The quantum-entangled particle interferometer approach is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kishore T. Kapale , Leo D. Didomenico , Hwang Lee , Pieter Kok , Jonathan P. Dowling

Photon detection with quantum-level sensitivity is particularly challenging in the terahertz regime (0.1-10 THz), which contains ~98% of all the photons existing in the universe. Near-quantum-limited terahertz spectrometry has so far only…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-06-15 Ning Wang , Semih Cakmakyapan , Yen-Ju Lin , Hamid Javadi , Mona Jarrahi

Quantum sensing utilizes quantum systems as sensors to capture weak signal, and provides new opportunities in nowadays science and technology. The strongest adversary in quantum sensing is decoherence due to the coupling between the sensor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-07-15 Yijin Xie , Jianpei Geng , Huiyao Yu , Xing Rong , Ya Wang , Jiangfeng Du

This article is a theoretical and quantitative exploration of the limit regarding the pump intensity between the two regimes of spontaneous-parametric down-conversion (SPDC) as well as of four-wave-mixing (FWM) in the framework of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-04 Benoît Boulanger , Gaspar Mougin-Trichon , Véronique Boutou

We demonstrate experimental generation of spatially-entangled photon-pairs by spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) using a partial spatially coherent pump beam. By varying the spatial coherence of the pump, we show its influence on…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-05-29 Hugo Defienne , Sylvain Gigan

The working principles of linear optical quantum computing are based on photodetection, namely, projective measurements. The use of photodetection can provide efficient nonlinear interactions between photons at the single-photon level,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-04-09 Hwang Lee , Pieter Kok , Colin P. Williams , Jonathan P. Dowling

Efficiently generating photon pairs with high heralding efficiency and high single photon purity that are bandwidth matched to quantum emitters, quantum memories, and other matter-based qubits is critical for quantum networking…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-05-21 Ashwith Prabhu , Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt

Biphoton states of signal and idler fields--obtained from spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) in the low-brightness, low-flux regime--have been utilized in several quantum imaging configurations to exceed the resolution performance…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Baris I. Erkmen , Jeffrey H. Shapiro

Quantum lithography achieves phase super-resolution using fragile, experimentally challenging entangled states of light. We propose a scalable scheme for creating features narrower than classically achievable, with reduced use of quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-05-30 Shamir Rosen , Itai Afek , Yonatan Israel , Oron Ambar , Yaron Silberberg