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Dual-channel, single-photon upconversion detector near 1300 nm

November 5, 2012
Author(s)
Paulina S. Kuo, Jason S. Pelc, Oliver T. Slattery, Martin M. Fejer, Xiao Tang
Upconversion of 1.3-micron photons and detection using silicon avalanche photodiodes (Si APDs) can produce high photon detection efficiencies (PDEs) with low dark count rates. We demonstrate a novel two-channel device based on a phase-modulated

Slot-mode-coupled optomechanical crystals

October 22, 2012
Author(s)
Marcelo I. Davanco, Jasper Chan, Amir H. Safavi-Naeini, Oskar Painter, Kartik A. Srinivasan
We design a cavity optomechanical system in which a localized GHz frequency mechanical mode of a nanobeam resonator is evanescently coupled to a high quality factor (Q > 10^6) optical mode of a separate nanobeam optical cavity. Using separate nanobeams

Dynamics of the non-classical light from a single solid-state quantum emitter

October 18, 2012
Author(s)
Edward B. Flagg, Sergey Polyakov, Tim O. Thomay, Glenn S. Solomon
We measure the dynamics of a non-classical optical field using two-time second-order correlations in conjunction with pulsed excitation. The technique quantifies single-photon purity and coherence during the excitation-relaxation cycle of an emitter, which

Circuit Quantum Electrodynamics with a Spin-Orbit Qubit

October 17, 2012
Author(s)
Jacob M. Taylor, Karl Petersson, L. McFaul, M. Schroer, M. Jung, Andrew Houck, Jason Petta
We develop a circuit quantum electrodynamics architecture for spin qubits by coupling an InAs double quantum dot to a high quality factor superconducting cavity. A charge trapped in the double quantum dot interacts with the electric field of the cavity

Photon Temporal Correlations Measured Using a Dual-Channel Upconversion Detector

October 14, 2012
Author(s)
Paulina Kuo, Jason S. Pelc, Oliver T. Slattery, Martin M. Fejer, Xiao Tang
We demonstrate application of a dual-channel upconversion detector as a beamsplitter that preserves photon statistics. We use this beamsplitter to characterize temporal correlations of photons from coherent and pseudo-thermal sources.

Single photon frequency up-conversion and its applications

October 12, 2012
Author(s)
Lijun Ma, Oliver T. Slattery, Xiao Tang
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has adapted a frequency up-conversion technique to develop highly efficient and sensitive single photon detectors and spectrometer for use at telecommunications wavelengths. The NIST team used these

Extending single-photon optimized superconducting transition edge sensors beyond the single-photon counting regime

October 2, 2012
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Brice R. Calkins, Nathan A. Tomlin, Adriana E. Lita, Alan L. Migdall, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
Typically, transition edge sensors resolve photon number of up to 10 or 20 photons, depending on the wavelength and TES design. We extend that dynamic range up to 1000 photons, while maintaining sub- shot noise detection process uncertainty of the number

A titanium-nitride near-infrared kinetic inductance photon-counting detector and its anomalous electrodynamics

October 1, 2012
Author(s)
Martin O. Sandberg, Fabio C. da Silva, Kent D. Irwin, David P. Pappas, Sae Woo Nam, David Wisbey, Ben Mazin, Seth Meeker, Jonas Zmuidzinas, Henry G. Leduc
We demonstrate single-photon counting at 1550 nm with titanium-nitride (TiN) microwave kinetic inductancedetectors. Full-width-at-half-maximum energy resolution of 0.4 eV is achieved. 0-, 1-, 2- photon events are resolved and shown to follow Poisson

Gradient-based stopping rules for maximum-likelihood quantum-state tomography

September 18, 2012
Author(s)
Scott C. Glancy, Emanuel H. Knill, Mark Girard
When performing maximum likelihood quantum state tomography, one must find the quantum state that maximizes the likelihood for observed measurements on identically prepared systems, all having that quantum state. This optimization is usually performed with

Dynamical Autler-Townes control of a phase qubit

September 10, 2012
Author(s)
Jian Li, G.S. Paraoanu, Katarina Cicak, Fabio Altomare, Jae Park, Raymond Simmonds, Mika A. Sillanpaa, Pertti Hakonen
We present an experimental demonstration of a phase qubit acting as an on/o® switch for the absorbtion of photons in a probe microwave beam. The switch is controlled by a second control microwave ¯eld. The on/o® states of the qubit are steady states which

Dual-channel, single-photon upconversion detector at 1.3 mm

August 3, 2012
Author(s)
Jason S. Pelc, Paulina Kuo, Oliver T. Slattery, Lijun Ma, Xiao Tang, Martin M. Fejer
We demonstrate efficient, single-photon upconversion detection of two wavelengths in the 1300-nm band. The upconversion detector is based on a phase-modulated, periodically poled LiNbO3 waveguide that simultaneously quasi-phasematches two sum-frequency

Dual-channel, single-photon upconversion detector at 1300 nm

August 3, 2012
Author(s)
Paulina Kuo, Jason S. Pelc, Oliver T. Slattery, Lijun Ma, Martin M. Fejer, Xiao Tang
We show a dual-channel, upconversion detector at 1.3-m-wavelength based on phasemodulated periodically poled LiNbO3, and use it for wavelength- to time-division multiplexing to achieve high data rates, useful for quantum key distribution.

On-chip, photon-number-resolving, telecom-band detectors for scalable photonic information processing

July 30, 2012
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Nick Thomas-Peter, James Gates, Adriana E. Lita, Benjamin Metcalf, Brice R. Calkins, Nathan A. Tomlin, Anna E. Fox, Antia A. Lamas-Linares, Justin Spring, Nathan Langford, Richard P. Mirin, Peter Smith, Ian Walmsley, Sae Woo Nam
We demonstrate the operation of an integrated photon number resolving transition edge sensor (TES), operating in the telecom band at 1550 nm, employing an evanescently coupled design that allows the detector to be placed at arbitrary locations within a

Transition edge sensors with low jitter and fast recovery times

July 30, 2012
Author(s)
Antia A. Lamas-Linares, Nathan A. Tomlin, Brice R. Calkins, Adriana E. Lita, Thomas Gerrits, Joern Beyer, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
Superconducting transition edge sensors (TES) for single photon detection have been shown to have almost perfect quantum efficiency (98%) at a wide range of wavelengths. Their high quantum efficiency combined with their ability to intrisically measure the

Improving Quantum Clocks via Semidefinite Programming

July 26, 2012
Author(s)
Michael J. Mullan, Emanuel H. Knill
The accuracies of modern quantum logic clocks have surpassed those of standard atomic fountain clocks. These clocks also provide a greater degree of control, as before and after clock queries, we are able to apply chosen unitary operations and measurements

Continuous-variable quantum compressed sensing

July 9, 2012
Author(s)
Yi-Kai Liu, Matthias Ohliger, Vincent Nesme, David Gross, Jens Eisert
We introduce a novel method to faithfully reconstruct unknown quantum states that are approximately low-rank, using only a few measurement settings. The method is general enough to allow for measurements from a continuous family, and is also applicable to
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