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It is not widely appreciated that many subtleties are involved in the accurate measurement of intensity-correlated photons; even for the original experiments of Hanbury Brown and Twiss (HBT). Using a monolithic 4x4 array of single-photon…
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The wavelength and state of polarization (SOP) are fundamental properties of an optical field which are essential for applications in optical communications, imaging and other fields. However, it is challenging for existing spectrometers…
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We realize mode-multiplexed full-field reconstruction over six spatial and polarization modes after 30-km multimode fiber transmission using intensity-only measurements without any optical carrier or local oscillator at the receiver or…
We experimentally isolate and directly observe multimode solitons in few-mode graded-index fiber. By varying the input energy and modal composition of the launched pulse, we observe a continuous variation of multimode solitons with…
The non-reciprocal and dynamic nature of polarization mode dispersion (PMD) in optical fibers can be a problem for accurate time and frequency transfer. Here a simple, passive solution is put forward that is based on transmitting optical…
The Dynamic Mode Decomposition (DMD) is a Koopman-based algorithm that straightforwardly isolates individual mechanisms from the compound morphology of direct measurement. However, many may be perplexed by the messages the DMD structures…
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