Whispering-gallery-mode sensors for biological and physical sensing

D Yu, M Humar, K Meserve, RC Bailey… - Nature reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The term whispering gallery mode (WGM) was first introduced to describe the curvilinear
propagation of sound waves under a cathedral dome. The physical concept has now been …

Quantum random number generators

M Herrero-Collantes, JC Garcia-Escartin - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2017 - APS
Random numbers are a fundamental resource in science and engineering with important
applications in simulation and cryptography. The inherent randomness at the core of …

Quantum plasmonic sensors

C Lee, B Lawrie, R Pooser, KG Lee… - Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The extraordinary sensitivity of plasmonic sensors is well-known in the optics and photonics
community. These sensors exploit simultaneously the enhancement and the localization of …

Squeezed light from a silicon micromechanical resonator

AH Safavi-Naeini, S Gröblacher, JT Hill, J Chan… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
Monitoring a mechanical object's motion, even with the gentle touch of light, fundamentally
alters its dynamics. The experimental manifestation of this basic principle of quantum …

All-optical free-space routing of upconverted light by metasurfaces via nonlinear interferometry

A Di Francescantonio, A Zilli, D Rocco, V Vinel… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
All-optical modulation yields the promise of high-speed information processing. In this field,
metasurfaces are rapidly gaining traction as ultrathin multifunctional platforms for light …

Observation of squeezed states generated by four-wave mixing in an optical cavity

RE Slusher, LW Hollberg, B Yurke, JC Mertz, JF Valley - Physical review letters, 1985 - APS
Squeezed states of the electromagnetic field have been generated by nondegenerate four-
wave mixing due to Na atoms in an optical cavity. The optical noise in the cavity, comprised …

Squeezed states of light

DF Walls - nature, 1983 - nature.com
The properties of a unique set of quantum states of the electromagnetic field are reviewed.
These 'squeezed states' have less uncertainty in one quadrature than a coherent state …

Generation of squeezed states by parametric down conversion

LA Wu, HJ Kimble, JL Hall, H Wu - Physical review letters, 1986 - APS
Squeezed states of the electromagnetic field are generated by degenerate parametric down
conversion in an optical cavity. Noise reductions greater than 50% relative to the vacuum …

[HTML][HTML] Fabrication of low-loss quasi-single-mode PPLN waveguide and its application to a modularized broadband high-level squeezer

T Kashiwazaki, T Yamashima, N Takanashi… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
A continuous-wave (CW) broadband high-level optical quadrature squeezer is essential for
high-speed large-scale fault-tolerant quantum computing on a time-domain-multiplexed …

Measurement of the Wigner distribution and the density matrix of a light mode using optical homodyne tomography: Application to squeezed states and the vacuum

DT Smithey, M Beck, MG Raymer, A Faridani - Physical review letters, 1993 - APS
We have measured probability distributions of quadrature-field amplitude for both vacuum
and quadrature-squeezed states of a mode of the electromagnetic field. From these …