Ultrafast second-order nonlinear photonics—from classical physics to non-Gaussian quantum dynamics: a tutorial

M Jankowski, R Yanagimoto, E Ng… - Advances in Optics …, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Photonic integrated circuits with second-order (χ (2)) nonlinearities are rapidly scaling to
remarkably low powers. At this time, state-of-the-art devices achieve saturated nonlinear …

Quantum nondemolition measurements with optical parametric amplifiers for ultrafast universal quantum information processing

R Yanagimoto, R Nehra, R Hamerly, E Ng, A Marandi… - PRX Quantum, 2023 - APS
Realization of a room-temperature ultrafast photon-number-resolving quantum
nondemolition (QND) measurement would have significant implications for photonic …

Matrix decompositions in quantum optics: Takagi/Autonne, Bloch–Messiah/Euler, Iwasawa, and Williamson

M Houde, W McCutcheon… - Canadian Journal of …, 2024 - cdnsciencepub.com
In this tutorial, we summarize four important matrix decompositions commonly used in
quantum optics, namely the Takagi/Autonne, Bloch–Messiah/Euler, Iwasawa, and …

Gain-induced group delay in spontaneous parametric down-conversion

G Thekkadath, M Houde, D England, P Bustard… - Physical Review Letters, 2024 - APS
Strongly driven nonlinear optical processes such as spontaneous parametric down-
conversion and spontaneous four-wave mixing can produce multiphoton nonclassical …

Quantum noise dynamics in nonlinear pulse propagation

E Ng, R Yanagimoto, M Jankowski, MM Fejer… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
The propagation of ultrafast pulses in dispersion-engineered waveguides, exhibiting strong
field confinement in both space and time, is a promising avenue towards single-photon …

Waveguided sources of consistent, single-temporal-mode squeezed light: The good, the bad, and the ugly

M Houde, N Quesada - AVS Quantum Science, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We study theoretically how the brightness of the pumps, with fixed profiles, affects the
temporal mode structure of squeezed states generated by fixed parametric waveguided …

Entanglement source and quantum memory analysis for zero-added-loss multiplexing

JH Shapiro, MG Raymer, C Embleton, FNC Wong… - Physical Review …, 2024 - APS
High-rate, high-fidelity entanglement distribution is essential to the creation of a quantum
internet, but recent achievements in fiber (248 km at a 9-s− 1 rate) and satellite-based (1200 …

Mesoscopic ultrafast nonlinear optics--The emergence of multimode quantum non-Gaussian physics

R Yanagimoto, E Ng, M Jankowski, R Nehra… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2023 - arxiv.org
Over the last few decades, nonlinear optics has become significantly more nonlinear,
traversing nearly a billionfold improvement in energy efficiency, with ultrafast nonlinear …

Deconstructing squeezed light: Schmidt decomposition versus the Whittaker-Shannon interpolation

C Drago, JE Sipe - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
We develop a formalism to describe squeezed light with large spectral-temporal
correlations. This description is valid in all regimes, but is especially applicable in the long …

Highly squeezed states in ring resonators: Beyond the undepleted-pump approximation

C Vendromin, Y Liu, Z Yang, JE Sipe - Physical Review A, 2024 - APS
We present a multimode theory of squeezed-state generation in resonant systems valid for
arbitrary pump power and including pump depletion. The Hamiltonian is written in terms of …