Two-photon interference: the Hong–Ou–Mandel effect

F Bouchard, A Sit, Y Zhang, R Fickler… - Reports on Progress …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Nearly 30 years ago, two-photon interference was observed, marking the beginning of a
new quantum era. Indeed, two-photon interference has no classical analogue, giving it a …

Laser written circuits for quantum photonics

T Meany, M Gräfe, R Heilmann… - Laser & Photonics …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The femtosecond laser direct‐writing (FLDW) of waveguide circuits in glasses has seen
interest from a number of fields over the previous 20 years. It has evolved from a curiosity to …

Integrated multimode interferometers with arbitrary designs for photonic boson sampling

A Crespi, R Osellame, R Ramponi, DJ Brod… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The evolution of bosons undergoing arbitrary linear unitary transformations quickly becomes
hard to predict using classical computers as we increase the number of particles and modes …

[HTML][HTML] Deep reinforcement learning for quantum multiparameter estimation

V Cimini, M Valeri, E Polino, S Piacentini… - Advanced …, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Estimation of physical quantities is at the core of most scientific research, and the use of
quantum devices promises to enhance its performances. In real scenarios, it is fundamental …

Ultrafast-laser-inscribed 3D integrated photonics: challenges and emerging applications

S Gross, MJ Withford - Nanophotonics, 2015 - degruyter.com
Since the discovery that tightly focused femtosecond laser pulses can induce a highly
localised and permanent refractive index modification in a large number of transparent …

Thermally reconfigurable quantum photonic circuits at telecom wavelength by femtosecond laser micromachining

F Flamini, L Magrini, AS Rab, N Spagnolo… - Light: Science & …, 2015 - nature.com
The importance of integrated quantum photonics in the telecom band is based on the
possibility of interfacing with the optical network infrastructure that was developed for …

Suppression law of quantum states in a 3D photonic fast Fourier transform chip

A Crespi, R Osellame, R Ramponi… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The identification of phenomena able to pinpoint quantum interference is attracting large
interest. Indeed, a generalization of the Hong–Ou–Mandel effect valid for any number of …

Three-photon bosonic coalescence in an integrated tritter

N Spagnolo, C Vitelli, L Aparo, P Mataloni… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
The main features of quantum mechanics reside in interference deriving from the
superposition of different quantum states. While current quantum optical technology enables …

Multiphoton quantum interference in a multiport integrated photonic device

BJ Metcalf, N Thomas-Peter, JB Spring… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Increasing the complexity of quantum photonic devices is essential for many optical
information processing applications to reach a regime beyond what can be classically …

Stringent and efficient assessment of boson-sampling devices

MC Tichy, K Mayer, A Buchleitner, K Mølmer - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
Boson sampling holds the potential to experimentally falsify the extended Church-Turing
thesis. The computational hardness of boson sampling, however, complicates the …