Quantum and Nonlinear Optics

Title: Hardware Error Correction for Programmable Photonics [Optica, arXiv, PDF] Authors: Saumil Bandyopadhyay, Ryan Hamerly, and Dirk Englund Published on 27 September 2021.   Abstract: Programmable photonic circuits of reconfigurable interferometers can be used to implement arbitrary operations on optical modes, providing a flexible platform for accelerating tasks in quantum simulation, signal processing, and artificial intelligence. A […]

Title: Efficient simulation of ultrafast quantum nonlinear optics with matrix product states [Optica, arXiv, PDF] Authors: Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, Edwin Ng, Logan G. Wright, Tatsuhiro Onodera, and Hideo Mabuchi Published on 5 October 2021. Abstract: Ultra-short pulses propagating in nonlinear nanophotonic waveguides can simultaneously leverage both temporal and spatial field confinement, promising a route towards single-photon nonlinearities

Title: Dispersion-engineered χ(2) nanophotonics: a flexible tool for nonclassical light [Journal of Physics Photonics, arXiv, PDF] Authors: Marc Jankowski, Jatadhari Mishra, and M. M. Fejer Published on 23 September 2021. Abstract: This article reviews recent progress in quasi-phasematched  nonlinear nanophotonics, with a particular focus on dispersion-engineered nonlinear interactions. Throughout this article, we establish design rules for the

Title: High spectral efficiency coherent superchannel transmission with soliton microcombs [Journal of Lightwave Technology, arXiv, PDF] Authors: Mikael Mazur, Myoung-Gyun Suh, Attila Fülöp, Jochen Schröder, Victor Torres-Company, Magnus Karlsson, Kerry J Vahala, Peter A Andrekson Published on 1 July 2021.  Submitted on 22 Dec 2018.   Abstract: Optical communication systems have come through five orders of

Title: Mid-infrared nonlinear optics in thin-film lithium niobate on sapphire  [Optica, arXiv, PDF] Authors: Jatadhari Mishra, Timothy P. McKenna, Edwin Ng, Hubert S. Stokowski, Marc Jankowski, Carsten Langrock, David Heydari, Hideo Mabuchi, M. M. Fejer, and Amir H. Safavi-Naeini Published on 16 June 2021. Abstract: Periodically poled thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) waveguides have emerged as a

Title: Entanglement and photon anti-bunching in coupled non-degenerate parametric oscillators [Entropy] Authors: Yoshitaka Inui and Yoshihisa Yamamoto Published on 17 May 2021. Abstract: We analytically and numerically show that the Hillery-Zubairy’s entanglement criterion is satisfied both below and above the threshold of coupled non-degenerate optical parametric oscillators (NOPOs) with strong nonlinear gain saturation and dissipative

Title: Towards an Engineering Framework for Ultrafast Quantum Nonlinear Optics  [SPIE, arXiv, PDF] Authors: Ryotatsu Yanagimoto, Edwin Ng, Tatsuhiro Onodera, Hideo Mabuchi Published on 5 March 2021.   Abstract: The advent of dispersion-engineered and highly nonlinear nanophotonics is expected to open up an all-optical path towards the strong-interaction regime of quantum optics by combining high transverse field

Title: Freely scalable and reconfigurable optical hardware for deep learning [Science Reports, arXiv, PDF] Authors: Liane Bernstein, Alexander Sludds, Ryan Hamerly, Vivienne Sze, Joel Emer, Dirk Englund Published on 4 February 2021. Abstract: As deep neural network (DNN) models grow ever-larger, they can achieve higher accuracy and solve more complex problems. This trend has been enabled

Title: Quantum diffusion of microcavity solitons [Nature Physics / arXiv / PDF] Authors: Chengying Bao, Myoung-Gyun Suh, Boqiang Shen, Kemal Şafak, Anan Dai, Heming Wang, Lue Wu, Zhiquan Yuan, Qi-Fan Yang, Andrey B. Matsko, Franz X. Kärtner, Kerry J. Vahala Published 25 January 2021 . Abstract: Coherently-pumped (Kerr) solitons in an ideal optical microcavity are expected

Title: Oscillatory motion of a counterpropagating Kerr soliton dimer [Phys. Rev. A / arXiv / PDF] Authors: Chengying Bao, Boqiang Shen, Myoung-Gyun Suh, Heming Wang, Kemal Safak, Anan Dai, Andrey B. Matsko, Franz X. Kartner, Kerry J. Vahala Published 6 January 2021. Abstract: Counterpropagating (CP) solitons generated in high-Q microcavities not only offer useful dual-comb sources, but

Title: Entanglement and quantum discord in coherent Ising machines [Phys. Rev. A, arXiv, PDF] Authors: Yoshitaka Inui, Yoshihisa Yamamoto Published on 22 December 2020 Abstract: We present analytical and numerical simulation results for squeezing, entanglement, and quantum discord in a dissipatively coupled coherent Ising machine (CIM). Both the analytical solutions and numerical simulation results, obtained with positive-P,

Title: Fundamental thermal noise limits for optical microcavities [Phys. Rev. X, arXiv, PDF] Authors: Christopher Panuski, Dirk Englund, Ryan Hamerly Published on 7 December 2020. Abstract: We present analytical and numerical simulation results for squeezing, entanglement, and quantum discord in a dissipatively coupled coherent Ising machine (CIM). Both the analytical solutions and numerical simulation results, obtained