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Alberto M. Marino, Raphael C. Pooser, Vincent Boyer, Paul D. Lett
Entanglement is an important quantum resource which displays correlations between two subsystems that are stronger than the ones that can be obtained classically. This makes it the basis for a number of applications, such as quantum information processing
Martin J. Stevens, Robert Hadfield, Thomas Gerrits, Tracy S. Clement, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
We report optical characterization of NbN nanowire superconducting single-photon detectors as a function of wavelength in the near infrared. System detection efficiency decreases from ~6 % at 1.15 υm to ~2 % at 1.72 υm, while timing jitter remains
Lijun Ma, Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang, Tiejun Chang
We demonstrated non-degenerate sequential time-bin entanglement using periodically poled KTP waveguide at a repetition rate of 1 GHz. The wavelengths of signal and idler are 895 and 1310 nm. The two-photon-interference-fringe visibility is 79%.
A compact scheme for high-speed frequency doubling and down-conversion on a single dual-element PPKTP waveguide is investigated. Optimal temperature is achieved and photon pair coincidence is observed at over GHz repetition rate with pulsed pump input
We present an inexpensive and simple data acquisition platform for Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) designed to acquire and characterize fast digital or analog electrical signal real time for processing on a generic personal computer. While the
In theory, quantum computers can be used to efficiently factor numbers, quadratically speed up many search and optimization problems, and enable currently impossible physics simulations. At first, quantum states appeared to be too fragile for implementing
Eric Dauler, Martin Stevens, Burm Baek, Richard J. Molnar, Scott A. Hamilton, Richard Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Karl Berggren
Second-order intensity correlation measurements were made using a two-element superconducting nanowire single photon detector (SNSPD) without the need for an optical beam splitter. This approach can be used to obtain a 50-ps full width at half maximum
Jeffrey S. Kline, Haohua Wang, Seongshik Oh, John M. Martinis, David P. Pappas
We have found that crystalline Josephson junctions have critical current density control problems which decrease circuit yield. We present a qubit circuit designed to accommodate a factor-of-five variation in critical current density for the evaluation of
Toshimori Honjo, Sae Woo Nam, Hiroki Takesue, Qiang Zhang, H. Kamada, Y. Nishida, O. Tadanaga, M. Asobe, Burm Baek, Robert Hadfield, Shigehito Miki, Mikio Fujiwara, Masahide Sasaki, Z. Wang, K. Inoue, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
We report the first entanglement-based quantum key distribution (QKD) experiment over a 100-km optical fiber. We used superconducting single photon detectors based on NbN nanowires that provide high-speed single photon detection for the 1.5-υm telecom band
This paper proposes an extension to Network Utility Maximization (NUM) framework, referred to as L-NUM (Location-aware NUM). This framework is intended to characterize both, the amount of the received sensor information and the network ability to deliver
Scott C. Glancy, Emanuel H. Knill, Thomas Gerrits, Tracy S. Clement, Martin J. Stevens, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin
When one makes squeezed light by downconversion of a pulsed pump laser, many temporal / spectral modes are simultaneously squeezed by different amounts. There is no guarantee that any of these modes matches the pump or the local oscillator used to measure
Martin J. Stevens, Eric Dauler, Burm Baek, Richard J. Molnar, Scott A. Hamilton, Karl Berggren, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
We demonstrate Hanbury-Brown Twiss interferometry without a beamsplitter, by employing a single-mode optical fiber coupled to a multi-element superconducting nanowire single-photon detector.
Sergey V. Polyakov, Alan L. Migdall, V Schettini, Ivo P. Degiovanni, Giorgio Brida, F Piacentini
We discuss a scheme for a photon-counting detection system that overcomes the difficulties of photon-counting at high rates at telecom wavelengths. Our method uses an array of N detectors and a 1-by-N optical switch with a control circuit to direct input
Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, M D. Eisaman, Jingyun Fan, Sergey V. Polyakov, Alan L. Migdall
We present the first experimental characterization of a heralded single-photon source based on spontaneous four-wave-mixing in a single-mode microstructure fiber. We measure the second-order correlation function, g(2)(0), to be far below the classical
We demonstrated ultra fast BB84 quantum key distribution (QKD) transmission at 625 MHz clock rate through a 97 km field-installed fiber using practical clock synchronization based on wavelength-division-multiplexing (WDM). We succeeded in over-one-hour
Shellee D. Dyer, Lenson Pellouchoud, Martin J. Stevens, Burm Baek, Sae Woo Nam, Robert Hadfield
We show photon pair generation from spontaneous four-wave mixing in dispersion-shifted fiber. By cooling the fiber to 4 K, we achieve almost complete suppression of the Raman photons, yielding a coincidence-to-accidental ratio of approximately 360
Martin J. Stevens, Burm Baek, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam, Robert Hadfield
Single-photon sources and detectors enable a wide range of applications, from quantum information technologies to fundamental tests of quantum optics. Semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) have emerged as promising single-photon sources, and recent work has
Shellee D. Dyer, Martin J. Stevens, Burm Baek, Sae Woo Nam
We demonstrate an all-fiber photon pair source with the highest coincidence-to-accidental ratio (CAR) reported to date in the fiber optic telecom C-band. We achieve this through careful optimization of pair production efficiency as well as careful
Mary A. Rowe, Eric Gansen, M. Greene, Danna Rosenberg, Todd E. Harvey, Mark Su, Robert Hadfield, Sae Woo Nam, Richard P. Mirin
We describe the design of the epitaxial layers for an efficient, photon-number-determining detector that utilizes a layer of self-assembled quantum dots as an optically addressable gate in a field-effect transistor. Our design features a dedicated
Qiang Zhang, Hiroki Takesue, Sae Woo Nam, Carston Langrock, Xiuping Xie, Burm Baek, Martin M. Fejer, Yoshihisa Yamamoto
In this letter, we report an experimental realization of distributing entangled photon pairs over 100 km of dispersion-shifted fiber. In the experiment, we used a periodically poled lithium niobate waveguide to generate the time-energy entanglement and
Jingyun Fan, M D. Eisaman, Elizabeth A. Goldschmidt, J Chen, Alan L. Migdall
We describe an experimental test of local realistic and non-local realistic theories using polarization-entangled two-photon singlet states created using a fiber-based polarization Sagnac interferometer. We show a violation of Bell s inequality in the
We report an experimental demonstration of a bright highfidelity single-mode-optical-fiber source of polarization-entangled photon pairs. The source takes advantage of single-mode fiber optics, highly nonlinear microstructure fiber, judicious phase
We describe an achromatic, phase-stable, broadband source of polarization-entangled photon pairs with high spectral brightness that uses four-wave mixing in a fiber Sagnac interferometer. We achieved a polarization-entangled two-photon coincidence rate of
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) high-speed quantum key distribution (QKD) system was designed to include custom hardware to support the generation and management of gigabit data streams. As our photonics improved our software