Optical coherence tomography with a nonlinear interferometer in the high parametric gain regime

GJ Machado, G Frascella, JP Torres… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate optical coherence tomography based on an SU (1, 1) nonlinear
interferometer with high-gain parametric downconversion. For imaging and sensing …

Nonlinear interference in the strongly nondegenerate regime and Schmidt mode analysis

KA Kuznetsov, EI Malkova, RV Zakharov… - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
The possibility to manage and control spectral and spatial properties of optical-terahertz
nonclassical fields generated in strongly nondegenerate parametric down-conversion is …

Quantum correlation between optical and terahertz photons generated under multimode spontaneous parametric down-conversion

GK Kitaeva, AA Leontyev, PA Prudkovskii - Physical Review A, 2020 - APS
We study conditions for the generation of strongly correlated photons of two extremely
different frequency ranges, optical and terahertz, via the spontaneous parametric down …

Towards measuring terahertz photon statistics by a superconducting bolometer

P Prudkovskii, A Leontyev, K Kuznetsov, G Kitaeva - Sensors, 2021 - mdpi.com
Statistical distributions of the analog readings of an antenna-coupled THz superconducting
bolometer were measured and analyzed under a special type of irradiation by low-energy …

FL-QKD based on optical-THz biphotons generated by spontaneous parametric downconversion in inter-satellite wireless communication

CJ Liu, CH Zhu, M Nie, H Yang, CX Pei - Applied optics, 2021 - opg.optica.org
Floodlight quantum key distribution (FL-QKD) is a new QKD protocol that can achieve a 2
Gbps secret key rate (SKR) in a 50 km fiber link without multiplexing technology [Q. Zhuang …

Generation of Optical—Terahertz Biphotons and Detection of Their Terahertz Component under Frequency-Nondegenerate Parametric Down-Conversion

VD Sultanov, KA Kuznetsov, AA Leontyev, GK Kitaeva - JETP Letters, 2020 - Springer
The conditions for the generation and detection of quantum-correlated pairs of optical and
terahertz photons in the process of strongly frequency-nondegenerate parametric down …

Correlation Properties of an Optical–Terahertz Biphoton Field

PA Prudkovskii - JETP Letters, 2021 - Springer
The effect of the structure of angular modes of an optical–terahertz biphoton field appearing
in strongly nondegenerate parametric down-conversion on the possibility of measuring …

Statistical features of the response of a superconducting hot-electron bolometer to extremely weak terahertz pulses of picosecond and nanosecond duration

TI Novikova, KA Kuznetsov, IV Korolev… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
We study the statistical distributions of the output signals of a superconducting hot-electron
bolometer (HEB) detector exposed to weak photon pulses of 1 THz (terahertz) frequency …

Direct Measurement of the Correlation Function of Optical–Terahertz Biphotons

AA Leontyev, KA Kuznetsov, PA Prudkovskii… - JETP Letters, 2021 - Springer
The second-order correlation function which characterizes the quantum correlation between
the optical and terahertz photons generated under spontaneous parametric down …

Azimuthal eigenmodes at strongly non-degenerate parametric down-conversion

LS Dvernik, PA Prudkovskii - Applied Physics B, 2021 - Springer
Quantum-optical technologies based on parametric light down-conversion are not yet
applied in the terahertz frequency range. This is owing to the complexity of detecting single …