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We demonstrate optical interferometry beyond the limits imposed by the photon wavelength using 'triggered' entangled photon pairs from a semiconductor quantum dot. Interference fringes of the entangled biphoton state reveals a periodicity…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-03-28 R. M. Stevenson , A. J. Hudson , R. J. Young , P. Atkinson , K. Cooper , D. A. Ritchie , A. J. Shields

Single-wavelength interferometry achieves high resolution for smooth surfaces but struggles with rough, industrially relevant ones due to limited unambiguous measuring range and speckle effects. Multi-wavelength interferometry addresses…

Matter-wave interferometry with molecules is intriguing both because it demonstrates a fundamental quantum phenomenon and because it opens avenues to quantum-enhanced measurements in physical chemistry. One great challenge in such…

In this paper, we report a capillary-based M-Z interferometer that could be used for precise detection of variations in refractive indices of gaseous samples. This sensing mechanism is quite straightforward. Cladding and core modes of a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-03-10 Haijin Chen , Xuehao Hu , Meifan He , Pengfei Ren , Chao Zhang , Hang Qu

We study both the wave-like behavior and particle-like behavior in a general Mach-Zehnder interferometer with its asymmetric beam splitter. A error-free measurement in the detector is used to extract the which-path information. The fringe…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Yanjun Liu , Jing Lu , and Lan Zhou

Interferometry provides highly sensitive access to optical phase and is central to much of modern metrology and phase imaging methods. Conventional implementations, however, often face trade-offs between mechanical stability and…

A spherical Fabry-Perot interferometer with adjustable mirror spacing is used to produce interference fringes with frequency separation (c/2L)/N, N=2-15. The conditions for observation of these fringes are derived from the consideration of…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Katherine Kerner , Simon M. Rochester , Valeriy V. Yashchuk , D. Budker

Efficient switching and routing of photons of different wavelengths is a requirement for realizing a quantum internet. Multimode optomechanical systems can solve this technological challenge and enable studies of fundamental science…

Optics · Physics 2020-06-02 David P. Lake , Matthew Mitchell , Barry C. Sanders , Paul E. Barclay

The development of mode-division multiplexing techniques is an important step to increase the information processing capacity. In this context, we design an efficient and robust mode-division (de)multiplexing integrated device based on the…

Optics · Physics 2018-06-04 G. Queraltó , V. Ahufinger , J. Mompart

We derive generic phase and amplitude coupling relations for beam splitters-combiners that couple a single port with three output ports or input ports, respectively. We apply the coupling relations to a reflection grating that serves as a…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Schnabel , A. Bunkowski , O. Burmeister , K. Danzmann

We propose an innovative scheme exploiting discrete diffraction in a two dimensional array of coupled waveguides to determine the phase and amplitude of the mutual correlation function between any pair of three telescopes of an…

Optics · Physics 2011-03-28 Stefano Minardi , Thomas Pertsch

Matter-wave interferometry has been largely studied in the last few years. Usually, the main problem in the analysis of the diffraction experiments is to establish the causes for the loss of coherence observed in the interference pattern.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Paula I. Villar , Fernando C. Lombardo

The theoretical study of the optical properties of TE- and TM- modes in a four-layer structure composed of the magneto-optical yttrium iron garnet guiding layer on a dielectric substrate covered by planar nanocomposite guiding multilayer is…

Guided-wave atom interferometers measure interference effects using atoms held in a confining potential. In one common implementation, the confinement is primarily two-dimensional, and the atoms move along the nearly free dimension under…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. H. T. Burke , B. Deissler , K. J. Hughes , C. A. Sackett

The interference between radiation fields superposed appropriately contains all available information about the source. This will be recapitulated for coherent and incoherent fields. We will further analyze a new kind of twisted 3D…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-28 Martin Berz , Cordelia Berz

The characterisation of loss in optical waveguides is essential in understanding the performance of these devices and their limitations. Whilst interferometric-based methods generally provide the best results for low-loss waveguides, they…

Silicon photonic integrated circuits routinely require 3-dB optical power dividers with minimal losses, small footprints, ultra-wide bandwidths, and relaxed manufacturing tolerances to distribute light across the chip and as a key building…

Quantum communication schemes such as quantum key distribution (QKD) and superdense teleportation provide unique opportunities to communicate information securely. Increasingly, optical communication is being extended to free-space…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-02-26 Clinton Cahall , Nurul T. Islam , Daniel J. Gauthier , Jungsang Kim

The fields in multiple-pass interferometers, such as the Fabry--P\'erot cavity, exhibit great sensitivity not only to the presence but also to the motion of any scattering object within the optical path. We consider the general case of an…

Optics · Physics 2010-07-02 André Xuereb , Tim Freegarde , Peter Horak , Peter Domokos

We propose a class of waveguides operating near cutoff such that electromagnetic energy is mainly bound to the cladding rather than the dielectric core to achieve subdiffraction confinement of light. The cladding incorporates an alternating…

Optics · Physics 2014-12-04 C. H. Gan
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