Superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors: physics and applications

CM Natarajan, MG Tanner… - … science and technology, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Single-photon detectors based on superconducting nanowires (SSPDs or SNSPDs) have
rapidly emerged as a highly promising photon-counting technology for infrared wavelengths …

Integrated photon-pair sources with nonlinear optics

Y Wang, KD Jöns, Z Sun - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Assisted by the rapid development of photonic integrated circuits, scalable and versatile chip-
based quantum light sources with nonlinear optics are increasingly tangible for real-world …

Silicon quantum photonics

JW Silverstone, D Bonneau, JL O'Brien… - IEEE Journal of …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integrated quantum photonic applications, providing physically guaranteed communications
security, subshot-noise measurement, and tremendous computational power, are nearly …

High-performance quantum entanglement generation via cascaded second-order nonlinear processes

Z Zhang, C Yuan, S Shen, H Yu, R Zhang… - npj Quantum …, 2021 - nature.com
In this paper, we demonstrate the generation of high-performance entangled photon-pairs in
different degrees of freedom from a single piece of fiber pigtailed periodically poled LiNbO3 …

Efficient photon-pair generation in layer-poled lithium niobate nanophotonic waveguides

X Shi, SS Mohanraj, V Dhyani, AA Baiju… - Light: Science & …, 2024 - nature.com
Integrated photon-pair sources are crucial for scalable photonic quantum systems. Thin-film
lithium niobate is a promising platform for on-chip photon-pair generation through …

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 …

Chip-based array of near-identical, pure, heralded single-photon sources

JB Spring, PL Mennea, BJ Metcalf, PC Humphreys… - Optica, 2017 - opg.optica.org
Interference between independent single photons is perhaps the most fundamental
interaction in quantum optics. It has become increasingly important as a tool for optical …

How does it scale? Comparing quantum and classical nonlinear optical processes in integrated devices

LG Helt, M Liscidini, JE Sipe - Journal of the Optical Society of …, 2012 - opg.optica.org
We present equations for the power generated via spontaneous (quantum) and stimulated
(classical) nonlinear optical processes in integrated devices. Equations for the same …

On-chip low loss heralded source of pure single photons

JB Spring, PS Salter, BJ Metcalf, PC Humphreys… - Optics express, 2013 - opg.optica.org
A key obstacle to the experimental realization of many photonic quantum-enhanced
technologies is the lack of low-loss sources of single photons in pure quantum states. We …