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Search Publications by: Thomas Gerrits (Fed)

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Quantum-correlated photon pairs generated in commercial 45 nm complementary metal-oxide semiconductor microelectronics

July 7, 2015
Author(s)
Cale M. Gentry, Jeff Shainline, Mark W. Wade, Martin Stevens, Shellee D. Dyer, Xiaoge Zeng, Fabio Pavanello, Thomas Gerrits, Sae Woo Nam, Richard Mirin, Milos A. Popovic
Correlated photon pairs are a fundamental component of quantum photonic systems. While pair sources have previously been integrated on silicon chips in custom facilities, these often take advantage of only a small fraction of microelectronics fabrication

Superconducting Transition Edge Sensors for Quantum Optics

June 2, 2015
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Adriana E. Lita, Brice R. Calkins
High efficiency single-photon detectors allow novel measurements in quantum information processing and quantum photonic systems. The photon-number resolving transition edge sensor (TES) is known for its near-unity detection efficiency and has been used in

A near-infrared 64-pixel superconducting nanowire single photon detector array with integrated multiplexed readout

May 14, 2015
Author(s)
Michael S. Allman, Varun B. Verma, Martin J. Stevens, Thomas Gerrits, Robert D. Horansky, Adriana E. Lita, Francesco Marsili, A. Beyer, Matthew Shaw, D. Kumor, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
We demonstrate a 64-pixel free-space-coupled array of superconducting nanowire single photon detectors optimized for high detection efficiency in the near-infrared range. An integrated, readily scalable, multiplexed readout scheme is employed to reduce the

Near-infrared single-photon spectroscopy of a whispering gallery mode resonator using energy-resolving transition edge sensors

April 28, 2015
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Michael Fortsch, Martin J. Stevens, Dmitry Strekalov, Gerhard Schunk, Josef Furst, Ulrich Vogl, Florian Sedlmeir, Harald G. Schwefel, Gerd Leuchs, Christoph Marquardt
We demonstrate a method to perform spectroscopy of near-infrared single photons without the need of dispersive elements. This method is based on a photon energy resolving transition edge sensor and is applied for the characterization of a widely wavelength

Highly efficient generation of single-mode photon pairs from a crystalline whispering-gallery-mode resonator source

February 11, 2015
Author(s)
Michael Fortsch, Gerhard Schunk, Josef Furst, Dmitry Strekalov, Thomas Gerrits, Martin Stevens, Florian Sedlmeir, Harald G. Schwefel, Gerd Leuchs, Christoph Marquardt
We report on the highly-efficient generation of narrow-band pair-photons in one single spatiotemporal mode using parametric down-conversion in a crystalline whispering gallery mode resonator. We developed the requirements on phase-matching conditions in

Photon-efficient high-dimensional quantum key distribution

February 4, 2015
Author(s)
Tian Zhong, Hongchao Zhou, Rob Horansky, Catherine Lee, Varun Verma, Adriana Lita, Alessandro Restelli, Joshua Bienfang, Richard Mirin, Thomas Gerrits, Sae Woo Nam, Francesco Marsili, Zhenshen Zhang, Ligong Wang, Dirk Englund, Gregory Wornell, Jeffrey Shapiro, Franco N. Wong
Quantum key distribution (QKD) is a secure communication technology whose security is guaranteed by the laws of physics. However, its widespread use has been hindered in part by low secure-key throughput due to the inherent loss and de-coherence of photons

Spectral Correlation Measurements at the Hong-Ou-Mandel Interference Dip

January 22, 2015
Author(s)
Thomas Gerrits, Francesco Marsili, Varun B. Verma, Lynden K. Shalm, Jeffrey A. Stern, Matthew Shaw, Richard P. Mirin, Sae Woo Nam
We present an efficient tool capable of measuring the spectral correlations between photons emerging from a Hong-Ou-Mandel interference configuration. We show that the Hong-Ou-Mandel interference visibility decreases as the photons’ frequency spread is

Pulse-to-pulse jitter measurement by photon correlation in high-ss lasers

January 20, 2015
Author(s)
Armand Lebreton, Abram Izo, Remy Braive, Nadia Belabas, Isabelle Sagnes, Francesco F. Marsili, Varun Verma, Sae Woo Nam, Thomas Gerrits, Isabelle Robert-Philip, Martin Stevens, Alexios Beveratos
The turn-on delay jitter in pulsed lasers in which a large fraction (β) of spontaneous emission is channeled into the lasing mode is measured by use of a photon correlation technique. This jitter is found to significantly increase with β, reaching values of

Photon-number uncertainty in a superconducting transition-edge sensor beyond resolved-photon-number determination

September 10, 2014
Author(s)
Zachary H. Levine, Boris L. Glebov, Alan L. Migdall, Thomas Gerrits, Brice R. Calkins, Adriana E. Lita, Sae Woo Nam
As part of an effort to extend fundamental single-photon measurements into the macroscopic regime, we explore how best to assign photon-number uncertainties to output waveforms of a superconducting Transition Edge Sensor (TES) and how those assignments

Photon-Efficient High-Dimensional Quantum Key Distribution

June 12, 2014
Author(s)
Tian Zhong, Hongchao Zhou, Ligong Wang, Gregory Wornell, Zheshen Zhang, Jeffrey Shapiro, Franco N. Wong, Rob Horansky, Varun Verma, Adriana Lita, Richard Mirin, Thomas Gerrits, Sae Woo Nam, Alessandro Restelli, Joshua Bienfang, Francesco Marsili, Matthew Shaw
We demonstrate two high-dimensional QKD protocols - secure against collective Gaussian attacks - yielding up to 8.6 secure bits per photon and 6.7 Mb/s throughput, with 6.9 bits per photon after transmission through 20 km of fiber.

Detection-Loophole-Free Test of Quantum Nonlocality, and Applications

September 26, 2013
Author(s)
B. G. Christensen, Kevin McCusker, Joseph Altepeter, Brice R. Calkins, Thomas Gerrits, Adriana Lita, Aaron J. Miller, Krister Shalm, Sae Woo Nam, P. G. Kwiat
We present a source of entangled photons that violates a Bell inequality free of the "fair-sampling" assumption, by over 50 standard deviations, and with enough "efficiency" overhead to eventually perform a fully loophole-free test of local realism. The

High quantum-efficiency photon-number-resolving detector for photonic on-chip information processing

September 18, 2013
Author(s)
Brice R. Calkins, Paolo L. Mennea, Adriana E. Lita, Benjamin Metcalf, Steven Kolthammer, Antia A. Lamas-Linares, Justin Spring, Peter C. Humphreys, Richard P. Mirin, James Gates, Peter Smith, Ian Walmsley, Thomas Gerrits, Sae Woo Nam
The integrated optical circuit is a promising architecture for the realization of complex quantum optical states and information networks. One element that is required for many of these applications is a high-efficiency photon detector capable of photon

Photon-Number-Resolved Detection of Photon-Subtracted Thermal Light

June 18, 2013
Author(s)
Jingyun Fan, Yanhua (. Zhai, Francisco E. Becerra Chavez, Boris L. Glebov, Adriana E. Lita, Brice R. Calkins, Thomas Gerrits, Sae Woo Nam, Alan L. Migdall
We examine the photon statistics of photon-subtracted thermal light using photonnumberresolving detection. We show the photon-number distribution transforms from a Bose-Einstein distribution to a Poisson distribution as the number of photons subtracted