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 …

Experimental demonstration of graph-state quantum secret sharing

BA Bell, D Markham, DA Herrera-Martí, A Marin… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Quantum communication and computing offer many new opportunities for information
processing in a connected world. Networks using quantum resources with tailor-made …

Experimental verification of multipartite entanglement in quantum networks

W McCutcheon, A Pappa, BA Bell, A Mcmillan… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Multipartite entangled states are a fundamental resource for a wide range of quantum
information processing tasks. In particular, in quantum networks, it is essential for the parties …

Experimental demonstration of a graph state quantum error-correction code

BA Bell, DA Herrera-Martí, MS Tame… - Nature …, 2014 - nature.com
Scalable quantum computing and communication requires the protection of quantum
information from the detrimental effects of decoherence and noise. Previous work tackling …

Limits on the heralding efficiencies and spectral purities of spectrally filtered single photons from photon-pair sources

E Meyer-Scott, N Montaut, J Tiedau, L Sansoni… - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
Photon pairs produced by parametric down-conversion or four-wave mixing can interfere
with each other in multiport interferometers or carry entanglement between distant nodes for …

Multi-photon absorption limits to heralded single photon sources

CA Husko, AS Clark, MJ Collins, A De Rossi… - Scientific reports, 2013 - nature.com
Single photons are of paramount importance to future quantum technologies, including
quantum communication and computation. Nonlinear photonic devices using parametric …

Spectrally pure single photons at telecommunications wavelengths using commercial birefringent optical fiber

J Lugani, RJA Francis-Jones, J Boutari… - Optics express, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We report a bright and tunable source of spectrally pure heralded single photons in the
telecom O-Band, based on cross-polarized four wave mixing in a commercial birefringent …

Multicolor quantum metrology with entangled photons

B Bell, S Kannan, A McMillan, AS Clark… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
Entangled photons can be used to make measurements with an accuracy beyond that
possible with classical light. While most implementations of quantum metrology have used …

Effects of filtering on the purity of heralded single photons from parametric sources

DR Blay, MJ Steel, LG Helt - Physical Review A, 2017 - APS
Optical quantum protocols are reliant on the production of highly pure single photons.
However, most parametric heralded single-photon sources possess spectral correlations …

Theory of cavity-enhanced spontaneous four wave mixing

K Garay-Palmett, Y Jeronimo-Moreno, AB U'ren - Laser Physics, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
In this paper we study the generation of photon pairs through the process of spontaneous
four wave mixing (SFWM) in a χ (3) cavity. Our key interest is the generation of photon pairs …