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Single photon sources based on spontaneous photon-pair generation have enabled pioneering experiments in quantum optics. However, their non-determinism presents a bottleneck to scaling up photonic and hybrid quantum-enhanced technologies.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-03-22 Robert J. A. Francis-Jones , Rowan A. Hoggarth , Peter J. Mosley

Recent advances in quantum photonics have enabled increasingly robust protocols in optical phase estimation, achieving precisions beyond the standard quantum limit and approaching the Heisenberg limit. While intrinsic losses hinder the…

We study the single-photon frequency conversion of a five-level emitter coupled to a Sagnac interferometer. We show that the unity conversion efficiency can be achieved either in resonance or off-resonance case under the ideal condition. In…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2013-12-20 Wei-Bin Yan , Jin-Feng Huang , Heng Fan

Utilizing the effect of losses, we show that symmetric 3-port devices exhibit coherent perfect absorption of waves and we provide the corresponding conditions on the reflection and transmission coefficients. Infinite combinations of…

Classical Physics · Physics 2018-04-23 O. Richoux , V. Achilleos , G. Theocharis , I. Brouzos

Synchronized radio telescope-based experiments conducted since 2017, together with subsequent interferometer experiments, provide evidence of an anomalous source of 3.7 Hz bandwidth pulses, sourced from near the direction of the star Rigel.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-16 William J. Crilly

Squeezed light has revolutionized quantum metrology by enhancing interferometry for sensitive applications such as the detection of gravitational waves. Squeezed light has also played a pivotal role in quantum information science with…

We develop a Sagnac-type source of ultrabright, non-degenerate, polarization-entangled photon pair that is highly stable and compact simultaneously. We use a $20~\text{mm}$ long PPLN bulk crystal which, upon pumping continuously with…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-12-06 Jakub Szlachetka , Kaushik Joarder , Piotr Kolenderski

We study the theory of, and propose an experimental design for, a Sagnac tractor atom interferometer based on a photonic integrated circuit (PIC). The atoms are trapped in counter-rotating azimuthal optical lattices, formed by interfering…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2025-11-10 Lefeng Zhou , Anne Graf , Georg Raithel

We use a Sagnac interferometer to measure the dispersive and absorptive properties of room temperature Rubidium vapor on the D_2 line at 780.2 nm. We apply a pump beam such that the resulting Lambda system exhibits Electromagnetically…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 Graham T. Purves , Charles S. Adams , Ifan G. Hughes

We describe an all-fiber nonlinear interferometer based on four-wave mixing in highly nonlinear fiber. Our configuration realizes phase-sensitive interference with 97% peak visibility and >90% visibility over a broad 554 GHz optical band.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-28 Joseph M. Lukens , Raphael C. Pooser , Nicholas A. Peters

Sagnac speed meter (SSM) topology is known as an alternative technique to reduce quantum back-action in gravitational-wave interferometers. However, any potential imbalance of the main beamsplitter was shown to reduce the quantum noise…

Opto-mechanical oscillators that generate coherent acoustic waves are drawing much interest, in both fundamental research and applications. Narrowband oscillations can be obtained through the introduction of feedback to the acoustic wave.…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-16 H. Hagai Diamandi , Yosef London , Gil Bashan , Arik Bergman , Avi Zadok

Multimode fibers (MMFs) have recently reemerged as attractive avenues for nonlinear effects due to their high-dimensional spatiotemporal nonlinear dynamics and scalability for high power. High-brightness MMF sources with effective control…

Optics · Physics 2023-12-07 Tong Qiu , Honghao Cao , Kunzan Liu , Li-Yu Yu , Manuel Levy , Eva Lendaro , Fan Wang , Sixian You

A compact, strictly all-fiber, picosecond pulse source based on ytterbium (Yb) doped fiber is described. Stable solitary mode-locking is obtained in a fiber-oscillator utilizing a carefully designed chirped fiber-Bragg-grating (C-FBG) for…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-13 Ori Katz , Yoav Sintov

Dual-comb interferometry is based on self-heterodyning two optical frequency combs, with corresponding mapping of the optical spectrum into the radio-frequency domain. The dual-comb enables diverse applications, including metrology, fast…

Here we study a simple way of controlling the emitted fields of sub-wavelength nanometric sources. The system consists of arrays of nanoparticles (NPs) embedded in optical active media. The key concept is the careful tuning of NP's damping…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-02-14 Raúl A. Bustos-Marún , Axel D. Dente , Eduardo A. Coronado , Horacio M. Pastawski

The lack of suitable quantum emitters in silicon and silicon-based materials has prevented the realization of room temperature, compact, stable, and integrated sources of single photons in a scalable on-chip architecture, so far. Current…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 H. Flayac , D. Gerace , V. Savona

We present a new approach to engineering broadband sources of entangled photon pairs for quantum interferometry. The source is based on quasi-phase-matched spontaneous parametric down conversion in a titanium diffused periodically poled…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-11-23 Abu Thomas , Mackenzie Van Camp , Olga Minaeva , David Simon , Alexander V. Sergienko

We demonstrate bipartite gaussian boson sampling with squeezed light in 6 mixed time-frequency modes. Non-degenerate two-mode squeezing is generated in two time-bins from a silicon nitride microresonator with simultaneous high spectral…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-08-20 Massimo Borghi , Emanuele Brusaschi , Marco Liscidini , Matteo Galli , Daniele Bajoni

Random resonant media being one of the possible realizations of disordered metamaterials open a room of opportunities for achieving new fundamental effects and designing advanced nanophotonic devices. Strongly nonlinear optical properties…

Optics · Physics 2019-01-17 Denis Novitsky , Alexander Shalin