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most citedQuantum memories: emerging applications and recent advances

474 citations · 877 across the 27 of their papers we have counts for

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28 papers

quant-ph2026

Simultaneous amplitude and phase spectroscopy using two-photon interference

Kyle M. Jordan, Yingwen Zhang, Frédéric Bouchard +5

Quantum spectroscopy seeks to probe chemical systems using nonclassical light, which has properties that are qualitatively and quantitatively different than conventional light sour…

quant-ph2025

Broadband spectral manipulation of single photons using cross-phase modulation

Kate L. Fenwick, Frédéric Bouchard, Guillaume Thekkadath +3

Manipulating the frequency and bandwidth of light is crucial in classical and quantum applications including communication, spectroscopy, imaging, and signal processing. Such capab…

cs.LG2025

Imaging at the quantum limit with convolutional neural networks

Andrew H. Proppe, Aaron Z. Goldberg, Guillaume Thekkadath +8

Deep neural networks have been shown to achieve exceptional performance for computer vision tasks like image recognition, segmentation, and reconstruction or denoising. Here, we ev…

quant-ph2025

Ultrafast all-optical modulation of spatially structured photons

Alicia Sit, Frédéric Bouchard, Nicolas Couture +4

Manipulating the structure of single photons in the ultrafast domain is enabling new quantum information processing technologies. At the picosecond timescale, quantum information c…

quant-ph2025

Ultrafast switching of telecom photon-number states

Kate L. Fenwick, Frédéric Bouchard, Alicia Sit +7

A crucial component of photonic quantum information processing platforms is the ability to modulate, route, convert, and switch quantum states of light noiselessly with low inserti…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Terahertz electro-optic modulation of single photons

Nicolas Couture, Frédéric Bouchard, Alicia Sit +4

The manipulation of visible and near-infrared light at the single-photon level plays a key role in quantum communication systems where information is encoded into photonic degrees…

quant-ph2025★ 4 cited

Quantum enhanced beam tracking surpassing the Heisenberg uncertainty limit

Yingwen Zhang, Duncan England, Noah Lupu-Gladstein +5

Determining a beam's full trajectory requires tracking both its position and momentum (angular) information. However, the product of position and momentum uncertainty in a simultan…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Multiphoton interference in a single-spatial-mode quantum walk

Kate L. Fenwick, Jonathan Baker, Guillaume S. Thekkadath +6

Multiphoton interference is crucial to many photonic quantum technologies. In particular, interference forms the basis of optical quantum information processing platforms and can l…

quant-ph2024★ 8 cited

Gain-induced group delay in spontaneous parametric down-conversion

Guillaume Thekkadath, Martin Houde, Duncan England +4

Strongly-driven nonlinear optical processes such as spontaneous parametric down-conversion and spontaneous four-wave mixing can produce multiphoton nonclassical beams of light whic…

quant-ph2024

Programmable Photonic Quantum Circuits with Ultrafast Time-bin Encoding

Frédéric Bouchard, Kate Fenwick, Kent Bonsma-Fisher +4

We propose a quantum information processing platform that utilizes the ultrafast time-bin encoding of photons. This approach offers a pathway to scalability by leveraging the inher…

quant-ph2024★ 1 cited

Photonic quantum walk with ultrafast time-bin encoding

Kate L. Fenwick, Frédéric Bouchard, Duncan England +3

The quantum walk (QW) has proven to be a valuable testbed for fundamental inquiries in quantum technology applications such as quantum simulation and quantum search algorithms. Man…

physics.optics2024★ 2 cited

3D-2D Neural Nets for Phase Retrieval in Noisy Interferometric Imaging

Andrew H. Proppe, Guillaume Thekkadath, Duncan England +4

In recent years, neural networks have been used to solve phase retrieval problems in imaging with superior accuracy and speed than traditional techniques, especially in the presenc…

quant-ph2024★ 5 cited

Storage of telecom wavelength heralded single photons in a fiber cavity quantum memory

K. A. G. Bonsma-Fisher, R. Tannous, D. Poitras +5

We demonstrate the storage and retrieval of heralded single photons in a fiber-based cavity quantum memory. The photons are stored, and retrieved, from the memory using quantum fre…

quant-ph2024★ 7 cited

Toward deterministic sources: Photon generation in a fiber-cavity quantum memory

Philip J. Bustard, Ramy Tannous, Kent Bonsma-Fisher +5

We demonstrate the generation of photons within a fiber-cavity quantum memory, followed by later on-demand readout. Signal photons are generated by spontaneous four-wave mixing in…

quant-ph2023

Ultrafast Measurement of Energy-Time Entanglement with an Optical Kerr Shutter

Andrew R. Cameron, Kate L. Fenwick, Sandra W. L. Cheng +6

Recent experimental progress in quantum optics has enabled measurement of single photons on ultrafast timescales, beyond the resolution limit of single photon detectors. The energy…

quant-ph2023★ 7 cited

A fiber-integrated quantum memory for telecom light

K. A. G. Bonsma-Fisher, C. Hnatovsky, D. Grobnic +4

We demonstrate the storage and on-demand retrieval of single-photon-level telecom pulses in a fiber cavity. The cavity is formed by fiber Bragg gratings at either end of a single-m…

quant-ph2023★ 22 cited

Measuring ultrafast time-bin qudits

Frédéric Bouchard, Kent Bonsma-Fisher, Khabat Heshami +3

Time-bin qudits have emerged as a promising encoding platform in many quantum photonic applications. However, the requirement for efficient single-shot measurement of time-bin qudi…

quant-ph2022★ 27 cited

Ultratunable quantum frequency conversion in photonic crystal fiber

K. A. G. Bonsma-Fisher, P. J. Bustard, C. Parry +4

Quantum frequency conversion of single photons between wavelength bands is a key enabler to realizing widespread quantum networks. We demonstrate the quantum frequency conversion o…

quant-ph2022★ 18 cited

Toward a Quantum Memory in a Fiber Cavity Controlled by Intracavity Frequency Translation

Philip J. Bustard, Kent Bonsma-Fisher, Cyril Hnatovsky +4

We propose a quantum memory protocol based on trapping photons in a fiber-integrated cavity, comprised of a birefringent fiber with dichroic reflective end facets. Photons are swit…

quant-ph2021

Quantum communication with ultrafast time-bin qubits

Frédéric Bouchard, Duncan England, Philip J. Bustard +2

The photonic temporal degree of freedom is one of the most promising platforms for quantum communication over fiber networks and free-space channels. In particular, time-bin states…

quant-ph2021

Achieving ultimate noise tolerance in quantum communication

Frédéric Bouchard, Duncan England, Philip J. Bustard +4

At the fundamental level, quantum communication is ultimately limited by noise. For instance, quantum signals cannot be amplified without the introduction of noise in the amplified…

quant-ph2017★ 34 cited

Time-bin to Polarization Conversion of Ultrafast Photonic Qubits

Connor Kupchak, Philip J. Bustard, Khabat Heshami +4

The encoding of quantum information in photonic time-bin qubits is apt for long distance quantum communication schemes. In practice, due to technical constraints such as detector r…

quant-ph2017★ 25 cited

Storage of polarization-entangled THz-bandwidth photons in a diamond quantum memory

Kent A. G. Fisher, Duncan G. England, Jean-Philippe W. MacLean +4

Bulk diamond phonons have been shown to be a versatile platform for the generation, storage, and manipulation of high-bandwidth quantum states of light. Here we demonstrate a diamo…

quant-ph2015★ 474 cited

Quantum memories: emerging applications and recent advances

Khabat Heshami, Duncan G. England, Peter C. Humphreys +4

Quantum light-matter interfaces are at the heart of photonic quantum technologies. Quantum memories for photons, where non-classical states of photons are mapped onto stationary ma…