Linear optical quantum computing with photonic qubits

P Kok, WJ Munro, K Nemoto, TC Ralph… - Reviews of modern …, 2007 - APS
Linear optics with photon counting is a prominent candidate for practical quantum
computing. The protocol by Knill, Laflamme, and Milburn [2001, Nature (London) 409, 46] …

Multiphoton entanglement and interferometry

JW Pan, ZB Chen, CY Lu, H Weinfurter, A Zeilinger… - Reviews of Modern …, 2012 - APS
Multiphoton interference reveals strictly nonclassical phenomena. Its applications range
from fundamental tests of quantum mechanics to photonic quantum information processing …

Continuous-variable optical quantum-state tomography

AI Lvovsky, MG Raymer - Reviews of modern physics, 2009 - APS
This review covers the latest developments in continuous-variable quantum-state
tomography of optical fields and photons, placing a special emphasis on its practical aspects …

Nonlinear optical signals and spectroscopy with quantum light

KE Dorfman, F Schlawin, S Mukamel - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2016 - APS
Conventional nonlinear spectroscopy uses classical light to detect matter properties through
the variation of its response with frequencies or time delays. Quantum light opens up new …

Tailoring nonlinear processes for quantum optics with pulsed temporal-mode encodings

V Ansari, JM Donohue, B Brecht, C Silberhorn - Optica, 2018 - opg.optica.org
The time-frequency degree of freedom is a powerful resource for implementing high-
dimensional quantum information processing. In particular, field-orthogonal pulsed temporal …

Probing multimode squeezing with correlation functions

A Christ, K Laiho, A Eckstein, KN Cassemiro… - New Journal of …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Broadband multimode squeezers constitute a powerful quantum resource with promising
potential for different applications in quantum information technologies such as information …

Joint spectral characterization of photon-pair sources

K Zielnicki, K Garay-Palmett… - Journal of Modern …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
The ability to determine the joint spectral properties of photon pairs produced by the
processes of spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC) and spontaneous four-wave …

Generation of pure-state single-photon wavepackets by conditional preparation based on spontaneous parametric downconversion

AB U'Ren, C Silberhorn, R Erdmann… - arxiv preprint quant-ph …, 2006 - arxiv.org
We study the conditional preparation of single photons based on parametric
downconversion, where the detection of one photon from a given pair heralds the existence …

Photon pair-state preparation with tailored spectral properties by spontaneous four-wave mixing in photonic-crystal fiber

K Garay-Palmett, HJ McGuinness, O Cohen… - Optics express, 2007 - opg.optica.org
We study theoretically the generation of photon pairs by spontaneous four-wave mixing
(SFWM) in photonic crystal optical fiber. We show that it is possible to engineer two-photon …

Theory of quantum frequency conversion and type-II parametric down-conversion in the high-gain regime

A Christ, B Brecht, W Mauerer… - New Journal of …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
Frequency conversion (FC) and type-II parametric down-conversion (PDC) processes serve
as basic building blocks for the implementation of quantum optical experiments: type-II PDC …