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We investigate theoretically the behavior of the current oscillations in an electronic Mach-Zehnder interferometer (MZI) as a function of its source bias. Recently, The MZI interference visibility showed an unexplained lobe pattern behavior…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Neder , E. Ginossar

Multimode squeezed light is enticing for several applications, from squeezed frequency combs for spectroscopy to signal multiplexing in optical computing. To generate squeezing in multiple frequency modes, optical parametric oscillators…

We present the first measurement of two-mode squeezing between the twin beams produced by a doubly resonant optical parameter oscillator (OPO) in above threshold operation, based on parametric amplification by non degenerate four wave…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-08-26 A. Montaña Guerrero , P. Nussenzveig , M. Martinelli , A. M. Marino , H. M. Florez

We report an optomechanical system with two dielectric membranes inside a Fabry-Perot cavity. The cavity resonant frequencies are measured in such a two-membrane-in-the-middle system, which show an interesting band-structure-like diagram.…

Optics · Physics 2019-03-06 Xinrui Wei , Jiteng Sheng , Cheng Yang , Yuelong Wu , Haibin Wu

We present a technique for generating light in an arbitrary polarization state. The technique is based on interference of two orthogonally polarized light beams, whose amplitudes and phases are controlled with a Mach-Zehnder inteferometer…

Applied Physics · Physics 2018-10-22 P. Wlodarczyk , S. Pustelny , D. Budker

On-chip coherent visible and near-infrared (NIR) light generation has broad applications in metrology, bio-sensing, and quantum information. High-Q microresonators are ideal candidates for generating light across such broad wavelength…

Novel physical concepts that originate from quantum mechanics, such as non-Hermitian systems (dealing mostly with PT and anti-PT symmetry) and bound states in the continuum (BICs), have attracted great interest in the optics and photonics…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-05 Jiawei Zhang , Ziyao Feng , Xiankai Sun

A beam splitter is a key component used to direct and combine light paths in various optical and microwave systems. It plays a crucial role in devices like interferometers, such as the Mach-Zehnder and Hong-Ou-Mandel setups, where it splits…

High-order harmonic generation (HHG) is investigated theoretically in the over-the-barrier ionization (OBI) regime revealing the strong signature of interference between two separately ionized and separately propagating free wave packets of…

Two-photon interference, a quantum phenomenon arising from the principle of indistinguishability, is a powerful tool for quantum state engineering and plays a fundamental role in various quantum technologies. These technologies demand…

Optical interferometric imaging enables astronomical observation at extremely high angular resolution. The necessary optical information for imaging, such as the optical path differences and visibilities, is easy to extract from fringes…

We analyse a nonlinear optical system which uses cascaded nonlinearities to produce both second and fourth harmonic outputs from an input field at the fundamental frequency. Using fully quantum equations of motion, we show that the system…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-01-03 M. K Olsen

A novel concept of self-phasematched optical frequency conversion in dispersive dielectric microcavities is studied theoretically and experimentally. We develop a time-dependent model, incorporating the dispersion into the structure of the…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alex Hayat , Meir Orenstein

We propose and experimentally verify a method to program the effective transmission matrix of general multiport linear optical circuits in random multiple-scattering materials by phase modulation of incident wavefronts. We demonstrate the…

Optical transport represents a natural route towards fast communications, and it is currently used in large scale data transfer. The progressive miniaturization of devices for information processing calls for the microscopic tailoring of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-09-09 F. Fratini , E. Mascarenhas , L. Safari , J-Ph. Poizat , D. Valente , A. Auffèves , D. Gerace , M. F. Santos

Emerging models of quantum computation driven by multi-photon quantum interference, while not universal, may offer an exponential advantage over classical computers for certain problems. Implementing these circuits via geometric phase gates…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-07-04 Anthony Laing , Thomas Lawson , Enrique Martín López , Jeremy L. O'Brien

Optical information processing and computing can potentially offer enhanced performance, scalability and energy efficiency. However, achieving nonlinearity-a critical component of computation-remains challenging in the optical domain. Here…

We report two-photon interference with continuous-wave multi-mode coherent light. We show that the two-photon interference, in terms of the detection time difference, reveals two-photon beating fringes with the visibility $V = 0.5$. While…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-07-19 Yong-Su Kim , Oliver Slattery , Paulina S. Kuo , Xiao Tang

It is challenging for observing superbunching effect with true chaotic light, here we propose and demonstrate a method to achieve superbunching effect of the degree of second-order coherence is 2.42 with broadband stationary chaotic light…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-27 Sheng Luo , Yu Zhou , Huaibin Zheng , Jianbin Liu , Hui Chen , Yuchen He , Wanting Xu , Shuanghao Zhang , Fuli Li , Zhuo Xu

In quantum optics, the postselection amplitude of a nondegenerate parametric down-conversion (PDC) process is linked to a beamsplitter (BS) via partial time reversal, up to a normalization coefficient which is related to the parametric gain…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-10 Yi Zheng , Jin-Shi Xu , Chuan-Feng Li , Guang-Can Guo