Modes and states in quantum optics

C Fabre, N Treps - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2020 - APS
A few decades ago, quantum optics stood out as a new domain of physics by exhibiting
states of light with no classical equivalent. The first investigations concerned single photons …

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 …

Experimental realization of multipartite entanglement of 60 modes of a quantum optical frequency comb

M Chen, NC Menicucci, O Pfister - Physical review letters, 2014 - APS
We report the experimental realization and characterization of one 60-mode copy and of two
30-mode copies of a dual-rail quantum-wire cluster state in the quantum optical frequency …

Quantum state engineering with twisted photons via adaptive sha** of the pump beam

EV Kovlakov, SS Straupe, SP Kulik - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
High-dimensional entanglement is a valuable resource for quantum communication, and
photon pairs entangled in orbital angular momentum (OAM) are commonly used for …

Integrated photonics for quantum communications and metrology

L Labonté, O Alibart, V D'Auria, F Doutre, J Etesse… - PRX Quantum, 2024 - APS
Over the last two decades, integrated photonics has profoundly revolutionized the domain of
quantum technologies. The ongoing second quantum revolution stands as a timely …

Single-step fabrication of scalable multimode quantum resources using four-wave mixing with a spatially structured pump

H Wang, C Fabre, J **g - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
Multimode quantum resources or states, in which quantum correlations are shared and
distributed among multiple parties, are important not only for fundamental tests of quantum …

Controlling the spectrum of photons generated on a silicon nanophotonic chip

R Kumar, JR Ong, M Savanier, S Mookherjea - Nature communications, 2014 - nature.com
Directly modulated semiconductor lasers are widely used, compact light sources in optical
communications. Semiconductors can also be used to generate nonclassical light; in fact …

Compact Gaussian quantum computation by multi-pixel homodyne detection

G Ferrini, JP Gazeau, T Coudreau, C Fabre… - New Journal of …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We study the possibility of producing and detecting continuous variable cluster states in an
extremely compact optical setup. This method is based on a multi-pixel homodyne detection …

Bloch-Messiah reduction for twin beams of light

DB Horoshko, L La Volpe, F Arzani, N Treps, C Fabre… - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
We study the Bloch-Messiah reduction of parametric down-conversion of light in the pulsed
regime with a nondegenerate phase matching providing generation of twin beams. We find …

Versatile engineering of multimode squeezed states by optimizing the pump spectral profile in spontaneous parametric down-conversion

F Arzani, C Fabre, N Treps - Physical Review A, 2018 - APS
We study the quantum correlations induced by spontaneous parametric down-conversion of
a frequency comb. We derive a theoretical method to find the output state corresponding to a …