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We present a novel architecture for a multi-pass amplifier based on a succession of optical Fourier transforms and short propagations that shows a superior stability for variations of the thermal lens compared to state-of-the-art 4f-based…

We present a theory of parametric mixing within the coplanar waveguide (CPW) of a superconducting nonlinear kinetic-inductance traveling-wave (KIT) amplifier engineered with periodic dispersion loadings. This is done by first developing a…

Classical Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 Robert P. Erickson , David P. Pappas

Phase sensitive amplifiers (PSA), contrary to usual phase insensitive amplifiers (PIA), are in principle capable to achieve noiseless amplification, i.e. exhibit a quantum-limited noise figure (NF) of 0 dB. When implemented using four-wave…

Quantum communication offers many applications, with teleportation and superdense coding being two of the most fundamental. In these protocols, pre-shared entanglement enables either the faithful transfer of quantum states or the…

Directional amplifiers are crucial nonreciprocal devices in both classical and quantum information processing. Here we propose a scheme for realizing a directional amplifier between optical and microwave fields based on an optomechanical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-22 Cheng Jiang , L. N. Song , Yong Li

It is demonstrated that non-resonant wave front reversal (WFR) of spin-wave pulses caused by pulsed parametric pumping can be effectively used for microwave signal processing. When the frequency band of signal amplification by pumping is…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-09-26 V. I. Vasyuchka , G. A. Melkov , A. N. Slavin , A. V. Chumak , V. A. Moiseienko , B. Hillebrands

We present the theory of a new amplification regime in Travelling Wave Tubes (TWTs) composed of a slow-wave periodic structure that supports multiple electromagnetic modes that can all be synchronized with the electron beam. The interaction…

Optics · Physics 2016-04-19 Mohamed Othman , Venkata Ananth Tamma , Filippo Capolino

The act of observing a quantum object fundamentally perturbs its state, resulting in a random walk toward an eigenstate of the measurement operator. Ideally, the measurement is responsible for all dephasing of the quantum state. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-01-14 F. Lecocq , L. Ranzani , G. A. Peterson , K. Cicak , X. Y. Jin , R. W. Simmonds , J. D. Teufel , J. Aumentado

We present experimental results on a Josephson parametric amplifier tailored for readout of ultra-sensitive thermal microwave detectors. In particular, we discuss the impact of fabrication details on the performance. We show that the small…

We introduce a novel near-quantum-limited amplifier with a large tunable bandwidth and high dynamic range - the Josephson Array Mode Parametric Amplifier (JAMPA). The signal and idler modes involved in the amplification process are realized…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-18 V. V. Sivak , S. Shankar , G. Liu , J. Aumentado , M. H. Devoret

Superconducting Parametric Amplifiers (SPAs) have seen great interest in recent years due to their high gain and quantum limited noise performance. Among these amplifiers, resonant SPAs have been widely developed for experiments where ultra…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2026-04-30 V. Gilles , T. Sweetnam , B. Mohammadian , M. A. McCulloch , L. Piccirillo

An ideal preamplifier for qubit measurement must not only provide high gain and near quantum-limited noise performance, but also isolate the delicate quantum circuit from noisy downstream measurement stages while producing negligible…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-11-15 T. Thorbeck , S. Zhu , E. Leonard , R. Barends , J. Kelly , John M. Martinis , R. McDermott

The ability to amplify optical signals is of pivotal importance across science and technology. The development of optical amplifiers has revolutionized optical communications, which are today pervasively used in virtually all sensing and…

This study presents an improved quantum teleportation protocol designed to enhance fidelity in noisy environments by combining weak measurements (WMs) with flip and reversal operations. In our scheme, Alice prepares a four-qubit entangled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Mohit Dhanik , Shraddha Sharma , Pitamber Mahanandia

RF Wireless Power Transfer (WPT) emerges as a technology for charging autonomous devices, enabling simultaneous power and information transfer. However, with increasing distance, single-input, single-channel rectenna systems are not able to…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-17 Chesney Buyle , Bert Cox , Liesbet Van der Perre , Lieven De Strycker

Parametric amplifiers have allowed breakthroughs in ultrafast, strong-field, and high-energy density laser science and are an essential tool for extending the frequency range of powerful emerging diode-pumped solid-state laser technology.…

A system scheme is presented which allows non-reciprocal wave transmission or directional amplification of electromagnetic signals, using a boxed four-node method. Edges represent strong hopping interactions and diagonals stand for weak…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-06-20 Sina Khorasani

We report parametric gain by utilizing $ \chi^{(2)} $ non-linearities in a semiconductor Bragg Reflection Waveguide (BRW) waveguide chip. Under the two-mode degenerate type II phase matching, it can be shown that more than 18 dBs of…

Using the Bogoliubov transformation in multi-frequency modes to describe the evolution of the non-degenerate signal and idler twin beams, we theoretically investigate the quantum noise properties of the pulse pumped high gain fiber optical…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-08-28 Xueshi Guo , Xiaoying Li , Nannan Liu , Z. Y. Ou

The Standing Wave (SW) TESLA niobium-based superconducting radio frequency structure is limited to an accelerating gradient of about 50 MV/m by the critical RF magnetic field. To break through this barrier, we explore the option of…

Accelerator Physics · Physics 2022-02-16 V. Shemelin , H. Padamsee , V. Yakovlev