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Fast control of the transverse structure of a light beam using acousto-optic modulators
Mahdieh Chartab Jabbari, Cheng Li, Xialin Liu +4
Fast, reprogrammable control over the transverse structure of light beams plays an essential role in applications such as structured illumination microscopy, optical trapping, and…
Modeling beam propagation in a moving nonlinear medium
Ryan Hogan, Giulia Marcucci, Akbar Safari +4
Fully describing light propagation in a rotating, anisotropic medium with thermal nonlinearity requires modeling the interplay between nonlinear refraction, birefringence, and the…
Photon Number Resolving Detection with a Single-Photon Detector and Adaptive Storage Loop
Nicholas M. Sullivan, Boris Braverman, Jeremy Upham +1
Photon number resolving (PNR) measurements are beneficial or even necessary for many applications in quantum optics. Unfortunately, PNR detectors are usually large, slow, expensive…
Aquila: QuEra's 256-qubit neutral-atom quantum computer
Jonathan Wurtz, Alexei Bylinskii, Boris Braverman +10
The neutral-atom quantum computer "Aquila" is QuEra's latest device available through the Braket cloud service on Amazon Web Services (AWS). Aquila is a "field-programmable qubit a…
Using an acousto-optic modulator as a fast spatial light modulator
Xialin Liu, Boris Braverman, Robert W. Boyd
High-speed spatial light modulators (SLM) are crucial components for free-space communication and structured illumination imaging. Current approaches for dynamical spatial mode gen…
Beam deflection and negative drag in a moving nonlinear medium
Ryan Hogan, Akbar Safari, Giulia Marcucci +2
Light propagating in a moving medium with refractive index other than unity is subject to light drag. While the light drag effect due to the linear refractive index is often neglig…
Experimental generation of polarization entanglement from spontaneous parametric down-conversion pumped by spatiotemporally highly incoherent light
Cheng Li, Boris Braverman, Girish Kulkarni +1
The influence of pump coherence on the entanglement produced in spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is important to understand, both from a fundamental perspective, and f…
High finesse bow-tie cavity for strong atom-photon coupling in Rydberg arrays
Yu-Ting Chen, Michal Szurek, Beili Hu +3
We report a high-finesse bow-tie cavity designed for atomic physics experiments with Rydberg atom arrays. The cavity has a finesse of and a waist of m at the cesi…
A classical model of spontaneous parametric down-conversion
Girish Kulkarni, Jeremy Rioux, Boris Braverman +2
We model spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) as classical difference frequency generation (DFG) of the pump field and a hypothetical stochastic "vacuum" seed field. We an…
Collective Spin-Light and Light-Mediated Spin-Spin Interactions in an Optical Cavity
Zeyang Li, Boris Braverman, Simone Colombo +6
The interaction between an atomic ensemble and a light mode in a high-finesse optical cavity can easily reach the strong-coupling regime, where quantum effects dominate. In this re…
Composably secure data processing for Gaussian-modulated continuous variable quantum key distribution
Alexander G. Mountogiannakis, Panagiotis Papanastasiou, Boris Braverman +1
Continuous-variable (CV) quantum key distribution (QKD) employs the quadratures of a bosonic mode to establish a secret key between two remote parties, and this is usually achieved…
Confocal super-resolution microscopy based on a spatial mode sorter
Katherine K. M. Bearne, Yiyu Zhou, Boris Braverman +6
Spatial resolution is one of the most important specifications of an imaging system. Recent results in quantum parameter estimation theory reveal that an arbitrarily small distance…
Multiprobe time reversal for high-fidelity vortex-mode-division multiplexing over a turbulent free-space link
Yiyu Zhou, Jiapeng Zhao, Boris Braverman +5
The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photons presents a degree of freedom for enhancing the secure key rate of free-space quantum key distribution (QKD) through mode-division mult…
Ultrafast pulse measurement via time-domain single-pixel imaging
Jiapeng Zhao, Jianming Dai, Boris Braverman +2
In contrast with imaging using position-resolving cameras, single-pixel imaging uses a bucket detector along with spatially structured illumination for image recovery. This emergin…
Fast Generation and Detection of Spatial Modes of Light using an Acousto-Optic Modulator
Boris Braverman, Alexander Skerjanc, Nicholas Sullivan +1
Spatial modes of light provide a high-dimensional space that can be used to encode both classical and quantum information. Current approaches for dynamically generating and measuri…
Entanglement-Enhanced Optical Atomic Clock
Edwin Pedrozo-Peñafiel, Simone Colombo, Chi Shu +8
State-of-the-art atomic clocks are based on the precise detection of the energy difference between two atomic levels, measured as a quantum phase accumulated in a given time interv…
High-fidelity spatial mode transmission through a 1-km-long multimode fiber via vectorial time reversal
Yiyu Zhou, Boris Braverman, Alexander Fyffe +5
The large number of spatial modes supported by standard multimode fibers is a promising platform for boosting the channel capacity of quantum and classical communications by orders…
Performance of real-time adaptive optics compensation in a turbulent channel with high-dimensional spatial-mode encoding
Jiapeng Zhao, Yiyu Zhou, Boris Braverman +6
The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of photons is a promising degree of freedom for high-dimensional quantum key distribution (QKD). However, effectively mitigating the adverse effe…
Trapping Yb Atoms into a One-Dimensional Optical Lattice with a Small Waist
Akio Kawasaki, Boris Braverman, Edwin Pedrozo-Peñafiel +4
In most experiments with atoms trapped in optical lattices, the transverse size of the optical lattice beams is on the order of tens of micrometers, and loading many atoms into sma…
Robust kHz-linewidth distributed Bragg reflector laser with optoelectronic feedback
Megan Yamoah, Boris Braverman, Edwin Pedrozo-Peñafiel +3
We demonstrate a combination of optical and electronic feedback that significantly narrows the linewidth of distributed Bragg reflector lasers (DBRs). We use optical feedback from…
Quantum, Nonlocal Aberration Cancellation
A. Nicholas Black, Enno Giese, Boris Braverman +3
Phase distortions, or aberrations, can negatively influence the performance of an optical imaging system. Through the use of position-momentum entangled photons, we nonlocally corr…
Near-Unitary Spin Squeezing in Yb
Boris Braverman, Akio Kawasaki, Edwin Pedrozo-Peñafiel +9
Spin squeezing can improve atomic precision measurements beyond the standard quantum limit (SQL), and unitary spin squeezing is essential for improving atomic clocks. We report sub…
Performance analysis of d-dimensional quantum cryptography under state-dependent diffraction
Jiapeng Zhao, Mohammad Mirhosseini, Boris Braverman +7
Standard protocols for quantum key distribution (QKD) require that the sender be able to transmit in two or more mutually unbiased bases. Here, we analyze the extent to which the p…
Geometrically asymmetric optical cavity for strong atom-photon coupling
Akio Kawasaki, Boris Braverman, Edwin Pedrozo-Peñafiel +11
Optical cavities are widely used to enhance the interaction between atoms and light. Typical designs using a geometrically symmetric structure in the near-concentric regime face a…