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We report on the measurement of terahertz electric-field vector waveforms by using a system that contains no mechanical moving parts. It is known that two phase-locked femtosecond lasers with different repetition rates can be used to…
The future of quantum photonic technology depends on the realization of efficient sources of single photons, the ideal carriers of quantum information. Parametric downconversion (PDC) is a promising route to create highly coherent,…
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Inverse-designed nanophotonic media are a promising platform for compact optical neural networks, but training them end to end is expensive because each adjoint iteration couples the full-wave solver to the dataset minibatch, so the number…