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Entanglement and correlation of quantum light can enhance LiDAR sensitivity in the presence of strong background noise. However, the power of such quantum sources is fundamentally limited to a stream of single photons and cannot compete…

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The absence of the single-photon nonlinearity has been a major roadblock in developing quantum photonic circuits at optical frequencies. In this paper, we demonstrate a periodically-poled thin film lithium niobate microring resonator…

Optics · Physics 2021-01-14 Juanjuan Lu , Ming Li , Chang-Ling Zou , Ayed Al Sayem , Hong X. Tang

Quantum illumination is a quantum-optical sensing technique in which an entangled source is exploited to improve the detection of a low-reflectivity object that is immersed in a bright thermal background. Entangled sources between microwave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-12-04 Biao Xiong , Xun Li , Xiao-Yu Wang , Ling Zhou

The sensitivity of future gravitational wave interferometers is expected to be limited through-out the detection band by quantum vacuum fluctuations, which can be reduced by quantum non-demolition methods such as squeezed vacuum injection.…

Device-independent quantum key distribution (DI-QKD) represents one of the most fascinating challenges in quantum communication, exploiting concepts of fundamental physics, namely Bell tests of nonlocality, to ensure the security of a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-12-07 F. Monteiro , E. Verbanis , V. Caprara Vivoli , A. Martin , N. Gisin , H. Zbinden , R. T. Thew

Integrated opto-electronic devices have the potential to revolutionize information processing, with substantial increase in computing speed, seamless information transfer and reduction of energy consumption. A key missing unit for the…

Advances in quantum technologies are accelerating the demand for optical quantum state sensors that combine high precision, versatility, and scalability within a unified hardware platform. Quantum reservoir computing offers a powerful route…

Error-detection and correction are necessary prerequisites for any scalable quantum computing architecture. Given the inevitability of unwanted physical noise in quantum systems and the propensity for errors to spread as computations…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-05 Madhav Krishnan Vijayan , Austin P. Lund , Peter P. Rohde

In future full-duplex communications, the cancellation of self-interference (SI) arising from hardware non-idealities will play an important role in the design of mobile-scale devices. To this end, we introduce an optimal digital SI…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Zhe Li , Yili Xia , Wenjiang Pei , Kai Wang , Danilo P. Mandic

By harnessing the quantum states of light for illumination, precise phase and absorption estimations can be achieved with precision beyond the standard quantum limit. Despite their significance for precision measurements, quantum states are…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-08-15 Ming Li , Chang-Ling Zou , Di Liu , Guo-Ping Guo , Guang-Can Guo , Xi-Feng Ren

The sensitivity of laser interferometers is fundamentally limited by the quantum nature of light. Recent theoretical studies have opened a new avenue to enhance their quantum-limited sensitivity by using active parity-time-symmetric and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-04-19 Jiri Smetana , Artemiy Dmitriev , Chunnong Zhao , Haixing Miao , Denis Martynov

Photon loss is the biggest enemy for scalable photonic quantum information processing. This problem can be tackled by using quantum error correction, provided that the overall photon loss is below a threshold of 1/3. However, all reported…

Integrated photonic quantum information processing (QIP) has advanced rapidly due to progress in various nanophotonic platforms. Single photon detectors have been the subject of intense study due to their ubiquity in QIP systems, yet many…

In this letter we report on an all optical-fibre approach to the synthesis of ultra-low noise microwave signals by photodetection of femtosecond laser pulses. We use a cascade of Mach-Zehnder fibre interferometers to realize stable and…

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In quantum illumination, the signal mode of light, entangled with an idler mode, is dispatched towards a suspected object bathed in thermal noise and the returning mode, along with the stored idler mode, is measured to determine the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-05-26 Ashwith Varadaraj Prabhu , Baladitya Suri , C. M. Chandrashekar

We present the design and characterisation of a low-noise, resonant input transimpedance amplified photodetector. The device operates at a resonance frequency of $90 \,\textrm{MHz}$ and exhibits an input referred current noise of…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-10-29 William Bowden , Alvise Vianello , Richard Hobson

Quantum state privacy amplification (QSPA) is the quantum analogue of classical privacy amplification. If the state information of a series of single particle states has some leakage, QSPA reduces this leakage by condensing the state…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-07-20 Liang Hao , Chuan Wang , Gui Lu Long

Practical quantum networks will require quantum nodes consisting of many memory qubits. This in turn will increase the complexity of the photonic circuits needed to control each qubit and will require strategies to multiplex memories and…

Quantum frequency conversion (QFC) which converts the frequencies of photons while preserving the quantum state is an essential technology for realizing the quantum internet and quantum interconnect. For the QFC based on the frequency…