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19972026
most citedA general framework for scintillation in nanophotonics

248 citations · 492 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

physics.optics2026

Resonant dispersive wave emission: a route toward few-cycle, tunable strong-field drivers in the visible

Martin Gebhardt, Joleik Nordmann, Nikoleta Kotsina +4

Intense ultrafast lasers are the backbone of strong-field physics and enable table-top scale applications of coherent high-photon energy radiation through high-harmonic generation…

quant-ph2026

Vacuum Fluctuation-Induced State Switching in Degenerate Optical Parametric Oscillators

Yihao Huang, Seou Choi, Rom Simovitch +5

Bistable driven-dissipative systems near bifurcations can exhibit noise-activated switching between steady states. Here, we investigate how quantum vacuum fluctuations induce such…

quant-ph2025

Three-Wave Mixing Element with Quantum Paraelectric Materials

Eric I. Rosenthal, Christopher S. Wang, Jamison Sloan +6

At cryogenic temperatures and microwave frequencies, the perovskite crystals strontium titanate (STO) and potassium tantalate (KTO) have large, tunable permittivity arising from a…

quant-ph2025

Variational processing of multimode squeezed light

Aviv Karnieli, Paul-Alexis Mor, Charles Roques-Carmes +5

Integrated multimode quantum optics is a promising platform for scalable continuous-variable quantum technologies leveraging multimode squeezing in both the spatial and spectral do…

physics.optics2025

Programmable control of the spatiotemporal quantum noise of light

Jamison Sloan, Michael Horodynski, Shiekh Zia Uddin +6

Optoelectronic systems based on multiple modes of light can often exceed the performance of their single-mode counterparts. However, multimode nonlinear interactions often introduc…

physics.optics2025

Controlling X-ray emission with optical nanostructures

Elina Sendonaris, Jamison Sloan, Nicholas Rivera +2

Nonlinear processes lie at the heart of many technologies such as frequency converters and entangled photon sources. Historically, observation and manipulation of these processes,…

quant-ph2025★ 1 cited

Noise immunity in quantum optical systems through non-Hermitian topology

Jamison Sloan, Sachin Vaidya, Nicholas Rivera +1

Multimode nonlinear optical systems are highly valued for their ability to withstand large amounts of optical power, transmit data with high bandwidth, perform physical computation…

quant-ph2024

Quantum sensitivity of parametric oscillators

Alex Gu, Jamison Sloan, Charles Roques-Carmes +6

Many quantum systems exhibit high sensitivity to their initial conditions, where microscopic quantum fluctuations can significantly influence macroscopic observables. Understanding…

quant-ph2024

Observing the dynamics of quantum states generated inside nonlinear optical cavities

Seou Choi, Yannick Salamin, Charles Roques-Carmes +3

Quantum states at optical frequencies are often generated inside cavities to facilitate strong nonlinear interactions. However, measuring these quantum states with traditional homo…

physics.optics2024★ 1 cited

Stochastic logic in biased coupled photonic probabilistic bits

Michael Horodynski, Charles Roques-Carmes, Yannick Salamin +4

Optical computing often employs tailor-made hardware to implement specific algorithms, trading generality for improved performance in key aspects like speed and power efficiency. A…

physics.optics2024★ 3 cited

Photonic probabilistic machine learning using quantum vacuum noise

Seou Choi, Yannick Salamin, Charles Roques-Carmes +7

Probabilistic machine learning utilizes controllable sources of randomness to encode uncertainty and enable statistical modeling. Harnessing the pure randomness of quantum vacuum n…

quant-ph2023

Deterministic quantum state generators and stabilizers from nonlinear photonic filter cavities

Sean Chen, Nicholas Rivera, Jamison Sloan +1

Quantum states of light, particularly at optical frequencies, are considered necessary to realize a host of important quantum technologies and applications, spanning Heisenberg-lim…

quant-ph2023★ 4 cited

Noise-immune quantum correlations of intense light

Shiekh Zia Uddin, Nicholas Rivera, Devin Seyler +7

Lasers with high intensity generally exhibit strong intensity fluctuations far above the shot-noise level. Taming this noise is pivotal to a wide range of applications, both classi…

quant-ph2023★ 6 cited

Entangling extreme ultraviolet photons through strong field pair generation

Jamison Sloan, Alexey Gorlach, Matan Even Tzur +4

Entangled photon pairs are a vital resource for quantum information, computation, and metrology. Although these states are routinely generated at optical frequencies, sources of qu…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Driven-dissipative phases and dynamics in non-Markovian nonlinear photonics

Jamison Sloan, Nicholas Rivera, Marin Soljačić

Interactions between photons (nonlinearities) enable a powerful form of control over the state of light. This control has enabled technologies such as light sources at new waveleng…

quant-ph2023★ 1 cited

Intense squeezed light from lasers with sharply nonlinear gain at optical frequencies

Linh Nguyen, Jamison Sloan, Nicholas Rivera +1

Non-classical states of light, such as number-squeezed light, with fluctuations below the classical shot noise level, have important uses in metrology, communication, quantum infor…

quant-ph2023★ 51 cited

Biasing the quantum vacuum to control macroscopic probability distributions

Charles Roques-Carmes, Yannick Salamin, Jamison Sloan +7

One of the most important insights of quantum field theory is that electromagnetic fields must fluctuate. Even in the vacuum state, the electric and magnetic fields have a nonzero…

physics.optics2022★ 1 cited

Strong broadband intensity noise squeezing from near-infrared to terahertz frequencies in semiconductor lasers with nonlinear dissipation

Sahil Pontula, Jamison Sloan, Nicholas Rivera +1

The generation and application of squeezed light have long been central goals of quantum optics, enabling sensing below the standard quantum limit, optical quantum computing platfo…

physics.optics2022★ 2 cited

Optical properties of dispersive time-dependent materials

Jamison Sloan, Nicholas Rivera, John D Joannopoulos +1

Time-varying optical materials have attracted recent interest for their potential to enable frequency conversion, nonreciprocal physics, photonic time-crystals, and more. However,…

quant-ph2022★ 35 cited

Creating large Fock states and massively squeezed states in optics using systems with nonlinear bound states in the continuum

Nicholas Rivera, Jamison Sloan, Yannick Salamin +2

The quantization of the electromagnetic field leads directly to the existence of quantum mechanical states, called Fock states, with an exact integer number of photons. Despite the…

physics.optics2022

Quantum Electrodynamical Metamaterials

Josephine Yu, Jamison Sloan, Nicholas Rivera +1

Recent experiments have revealed ultrastrong coupling between light and matter as a promising avenue for modifying material properties, such as electrical transport, chemical react…

quant-ph2021★ 1 cited

Nonperturbative electromagnetic nonlinearities, n-photon reflectors, and Fock-state lasers based on deep-strong coupling of light and matter

Nicholas Rivera, Jamison Sloan, Ido Kaminer +1

Light and matter can now interact in a regime where their coupling is stronger than their bare energies. This deep-strong coupling (DSC) regime of quantum electrodynamics promises…

quant-ph2021★ 2 cited

Complete condensation of photon noise in nonlinear dissipative systems

Nicholas Rivera, Jamison Sloan, Yannick Salamin +1

Fock states are the most fundamental quantum states of bosonic fields, forming an important basis for understanding their quantum dynamics. As energy and number eigenstates, they h…

physics.optics2021★ 248 cited

A general framework for scintillation in nanophotonics

Charles Roques-Carmes, Nicholas Rivera, Ali Ghorashi +12

Bombardment of materials by high-energy particles (e.g., electrons, nuclei, X- and -ray photons) often leads to light emission, known generally as scintillation. Scintillation i…