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We present two hybrid linear-optical architectures that simultaneously exploit spatial and temporal degrees of freedom of light to effect arbitrary discrete unitary transformations. Our architectures combine the benefits of spatial…

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Recent significant advances in coupling superconducting qubits to acoustic wave resonators has led to demonstrations of quantum control of surface and bulk acoustic resonant modes as well Wigner tomography of quantum states in these modes.…

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Phase modulation is demonstrated in a quantum Stark effect modulator designed to operate in the mid-infrared at wavelength around 10 $\mu$m. Both phase and amplitude modulation are simultaneously resolved through the measurement of the…

This study introduces the Bragg Frequency Convertor, a spatial-temporal-periodic grating that extends the concept of conventional Bragg gratings into the dynamic domain to achieve pure parametric frequency conversion. By time-modulating…

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Electro-optical modulators are essential components in optical communication systems. They encode an electrical waveform onto an optical carrier. However, their performance is often limited by inherent electro-optic processes and…

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Controlling the temporal mode shape of quantum light pulses has wide ranging application to quantum information science and technology. Techniques have been developed to control the bandwidth, allow shifting in the time and frequency…

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We study the impact of a spatially homogeneous yet non-stationary dielectric permittivity on the dynamical and spectral properties of light. Our choice of potential is motivated by the interest in PT-symmetric systems as an extension of…

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Electromagnetic waves in a system with a space and time dependent boundary experience both diffraction and Doppler-like frequency conversion. In order to analyse such situations, conventional methods call for either the eigenmodes or the…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-14 Daigo Oue , Kun Ding , J. B. Pendry

We report a complete steady-state solution to the time rate equations governing the dynamics of a sinusoidally driven ring modulator. Compared to previous works that provide comprehensive solutions for pure index (phase) or loss (loss)…

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In this study, we analyze the feasibility of distributed phase synchronization for coherent signal superposition, a fundamental enabler for paradigms such as coherent over-the-air computation (OAC), distributed beamforming, and interference…

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Differential modulation schemes are very relevant in receivers having power and processing limitations, as these schemes dispense with the need for knowledge of channel coefficients for symbol detection. Spatial modulation (SM) is a scheme…

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Optical modulators in the visible regime have far-reaching applications from biophotonics to quantum science. Implementations of such optical phase modulators on a complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) compatible platform have been…

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A method of dynamic continuous-wave spectroscopy of coherent population trapping (CPT) resonances using phase modulation of the jump type is developed. The time evolution of the spectroscopic signal is investigated. A method for the…

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