Nonlinear and quantum photonics using integrated optical materials

A Dutt, A Mohanty, AL Gaeta, M Lipson - Nature Reviews Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Integrated nonlinear photonics provides transformative capabilities for controlling,
enhancing and manipulating material nonlinearities in miniaturized on-chip platforms. The …

Thermorefractive noise in silicon-nitride microresonators

G Huang, E Lucas, J Liu, AS Raja, G Lihachev… - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
Thermodynamic noise places a fundamental limit on the frequency stability of dielectric
optical resonators. Here, we present the characterization of thermorefractive noise in …

Nonlinear and quantum optics with whispering gallery resonators

DV Strekalov, C Marquardt, AB Matsko… - Journal of …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical whispering gallery modes (WGMs) derive their name from a famous acoustic
phenomenon of guiding a wave by a curved boundary observed nearly a century ago. This …

Broadband quadrature-squeezed vacuum and nonclassical photon number correlations from a nanophotonic device

VD Vaidya, B Morrison, LG Helt, R Shahrokshahi… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
We report demonstrations of both quadrature-squeezed vacuum and photon number
difference squeezing generated in an integrated nanophotonic device. Squeezed light is …

Quantum enhanced optomechanical magnetometry

BB Li, J Bílek, UB Hoff, LS Madsen, S Forstner… - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The resonant enhancement of both mechanical and optical response in microcavity
optomechanical devices allows exquisitely sensitive measurements of stimuli, such as …

Simulating realistic non-Gaussian state preparation

N Quesada, LG Helt, J Izaac, JM Arrazola… - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
We consider conditional photonic non-Gaussian state preparation using multimode
Gaussian states and photon-number-resolving detectors in the presence of photon loss …

Quantum computing with multidimensional continuous-variable cluster states in a scalable photonic platform

BH Wu, RN Alexander, S Liu, Z Zhang - Physical Review Research, 2020 - APS
Quantum computing is a disruptive paradigm widely believed to be capable of solving
classically intractable problems. However, the route toward full-scale quantum computers is …

Scalable squeezed-light source for continuous-variable quantum sampling

Z Vernon, N Quesada, M Liscidini, B Morrison… - Physical Review …, 2019 - APS
We propose a squeezed-light source meeting the stringent requirements of continuous-
variable quantum sampling. Using the time-dependent effective second-order nonlinear …

Squeezed vacuum states from a whispering gallery mode resonator

A Otterpohl, F Sedlmeir, U Vogl, T Dirmeier, G Shafiee… - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Squeezed vacuum states enable optical measurements below the quantum limit and hence
are a valuable resource for applications in quantum metrology and also quantum …

[HTML][HTML] Nanophotonic source of quadrature squeezing via self-phase modulation

R Cernansky, A Politi - APL Photonics, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Squeezed light is optical beams with variance below the shot noise level. They are a key
resource for quantum technologies based on photons, and they can be used to achieve …