Nonlinear interferometers in quantum optics

MV Chekhova, ZY Ou - Advances in Optics and Photonics, 2016 - opg.optica.org
We review the main works in the field of nonlinear interferometers, which has been
develo** ever since the start of nonlinear optics and has seen growing interest in recent …

Experimental implementation of the optical fractional fourier transform in the time-frequency domain

B Niewelt, M Jastrzębski, S Kurzyna, J Nowosielski… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
The fractional Fourier transform (FrFT), a fundamental operation in physics that corresponds
to a rotation of phase space by any angle, is also an indispensable tool employed in digital …

Atom-light hybrid interferometer

B Chen, C Qiu, S Chen, J Guo, LQ Chen, ZY Ou… - Physical review …, 2015 - APS
A new type of hybrid atom-light interferometer is demonstrated with atomic Raman
amplification processes replacing the beam splitting elements in a traditional interferometer …

Large cross-phase modulations at the few-photon level

ZY Liu, YH Chen, YC Chen, HY Lo, PJ Tsai, IA Yu… - Physical review …, 2016 - APS
We demonstrate an efficient cross-phase modulation (XPM) based on a closed-loop double-
Λ system. The property of the double-Λ medium can be controlled by changing the phases of …

Configurable unitary transformations and linear logic gates using quantum memories

GT Campbell, O Pinel, M Hosseini, TC Ralph… - Physical review …, 2014 - APS
We show that a set of optical memories can act as a configurable linear optical network
operating on frequency-multiplexed optical states. Our protocol is applicable to any quantum …

Storage and manipulation of light using a Raman gradient-echo process

M Hosseini, BM Sparkes, GT Campbell… - Journal of Physics B …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The gradient-echo memory (GEM) scheme has potential to be a suitable protocol for storage
and retrieval of optical quantum information. In this paper, we review the properties of the Λ …

Coherent spin-wave processor of stored optical pulses

M Mazelanik, M Parniak, A Leszczyński… - npj Quantum …, 2019 - nature.com
A device being a pinnacle of development of an optical quantum memory should combine
the capabilities of storage, inter-communication, and processing of stored information. In …

Non-Hermitian magnon-photon interference in an atomic ensemble

R Wen, CL Zou, X Zhu, P Chen, ZY Ou, JF Chen… - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
The interference of photons in a lossy beam splitter (BS) exhibits anticoalescence, which is
surprising for bosons. Such a non-Hermitian system involving open quantum dynamics is of …

High-performance Raman memory with spatio-temporal reversal

P Vernaz-Gris, AD Tranter, JL Everett, AC Leung… - Optics …, 2018 - opg.optica.org
A number of techniques exist to use an ensemble of atoms as a quantum memory for light.
Many of these propose to use backward retrieval as a way to improve the storage and recall …

Quantum memory receiver for superadditive communication using binary coherent states

A Klimek, M Jachura, W Wasilewski… - Journal of modern …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
We propose a simple architecture based on multimode quantum memories for collective
readout of classical information keyed using a pair coherent states, exemplified by the well …