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We generated time-multiplexed degenerate optical parametric oscillator (DOPO) pulses using a nonlinear fiber Sagnac loop as a phase-sensitive amplifier (PSA) where the pump and amplified light in pump-signal-idler degenerate four-wave…

Optics · Physics 2023-02-22 Hsin-Pin Lo , Takahiro Inagaki , Toshimori Honjo , Hiroki Takesue

We present a new method for high precision measurements of polarization rotation in the frequency range from 0.2 to 2.2 THz using a fiber coupled time-domain THz spectrometer. A free standing wire-grid polarizer splits THz light into…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-21 Zhenisbek Tagay , Ralph Romero , N. P. Armitage

The generation and application of squeezed light have long been central goals of quantum optics, enabling sensing below the standard quantum limit, optical quantum computing platforms, and more. Intensity noise squeezing of bright…

Optics · Physics 2024-05-08 Sahil Pontula , Jamison Sloan , Nicholas Rivera , Marin Soljacic

The present work reports on the generation of short-pulse coherent extreme ultraviolet radiation of controlled polarization. The proposed strategy is based on high-order harmonics generated in pre-aligned molecules. Field-free molecular…

We report the observation of macroscopic harmonic states in an optically induced confinement in a highly photoexcited semiconductor microcavity at room temperature. The spatially photomodulated refractive index changes result in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-10 Wei Xie , Feng-Kuo Hsu , Yi-Shan Lee , Sheng-Di Lin , Chih Wei Lai

Recently a data set containing linear and circular polarisation information of a collection of six hundred pulsars has been released. The operative radio wavelength for the same was 21 cm. Pulsars radio emission process is modelled either…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2019-11-11 Karam Chand , Subhayan Mandal

Polarization dependence on clamping intensity inside femtosecond filament was experimentally measured in air. By tuning the laser pulse ellipse from linear polarization to circular polarization, the measured clamping intensity inside laser…

Multimode optical fibers have seen increasing applications in communication, imaging, high-power lasers and amplifiers. However, inherent imperfections and environmental perturbations cause random polarization and mode mixing, making the…

We report a nonlocal interferometer capable of detecting entanglement and identifying Bell states statistically. This is possible due to the interferometer's unique correlation dependence on the anti-diagonal elements of the density matrix,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-06-09 Brian P. Williams , Travis S. Humble , Warren P. Grice

A high degree of linear polarization measured in the optical emission is an important observational feature of blazars. It provides strong evidence of the presence of relativistic particles and magnetic field ordering in the non-thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-17 K K Singh , A Singh , A Tolamatti , P J Meintjes , K K Yadav

Experimental Stokes vector spectroscopy characterizes polarization state noise in nonlinear fiber transmission. Noise bandwidths of a few MHz are observed from XPM-blurred receive SOPs using a polarization scrambling interferometer. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-04 Lothar Moeller

We investigate theoretically the quantum fluctuations of the fundamental field in the output of a nondegenerate second harmonic generation process occuring inside a laser cavity. Due to the nondegenerate character of the nonlinear medium, a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ulrik L. Andersen , Peter Tidemand-Lichtenberg , Preben Buchhave

We present experimental studies on the generation of pulsed and continuous-wave squeezed vacuum via nonlinear rotation of the polarization ellipse in a $^{87}$Rb vapor. Squeezing is observed for a wide range of input powers and pump…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-14 Imad H. Agha , Gaétan Messin , Philippe Grangier

Photon-number correlation measurements are performed on bright squeezed vacuum states using a standard Bell-test setup, and quantum correlations are observed for conjugate polarization-frequency modes. We further test the entanglement…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Bhaskar Kanseri , Timur Iskhakov , Georgy Rytikov , Maria Chekhova , Gerd Leuchs

A comparative experimental and theoretical investigation is presented that centres on the effects of structuring black silicon surfaces with linearly, circularly and azimuthally polarized laser pulses under SF6 ambient atmosphere. It is…

The Einstein Telescope (ET) is a proposed future gravitational wave detector. Its design is original, using a triangular orientation of three detectors and a xylophone configuration, splitting each detector into one high-frequency and one…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2014-04-03 Mengyao Wang , Charlotte Bond , Daniel Brown , Frank Brueckner , Ludovico Carbone , Rebecca Palmer , Andreas Freise

In this paper, we report an experimental study of noise features of polarized and unpolarized amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) with narrow optical bandwidth, registered from a conventional low-doped erbium fiber. We demonstrate that ASE…

Squeezed states of light enable enhanced measurement precision by reducing noise below the standard quantum limit. A key application of squeezed light is nonlinear microscopy, where state-of-the-art performance is limited by photodamage and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-23 Alex Terrasson , Lars Madsen , Joel Grim , Warwick Bowen

Entangled photon sources are essential for quantum information applications, including quantum computation, quantum communication, and quantum metrology. Periodically poled (PP) crystals are commonly used to generate bright photon sources…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-29 Ilhwan Kim , Yosep Kim , Yong-Su Kim , Kwang Jo Lee , Hyang-Tag Lim

Recent studies have demonstrated that the polarization states of high harmonics from solids can differ from those of the driving pulses. To gain insights on the microscopic origin of this behavior, we perform one-particle intraband-only…