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most citedBoson Sampling on a Photonic Chip

843 citations · 2.1k across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CV2026

Fringe Projection Based Vision Pipeline for Autonomous Hard Drive Disassembly

Badrinath Balasubramaniam, Vignesh Suresh, Benjamin Metcalf +1

Unrecovered e-waste represents a significant economic loss. Hard disk drives (HDDs) comprise a valuable e-waste stream necessitating robotic disassembly. Automating the disassembly…

quant-ph2018

Modular Linear Optical Circuits

Paolo L. Mennea, William R. Clements, Devin H. Smith +8

We propose and demonstrate a modular architecture for reconfigurable on-chip linear-optical circuits. Each module contains 10 independent phase-controlled Mach-Zehnder interferomet…

quant-ph2016★ 151 cited

Distinguishability and many-particle interference

Adrian J. Menssen, Alex E. Jones, Benjamin J. Metcalf +4

Quantum interference of two independent particles in pure quantum states is fully described by the particles' distinguishability: the closer the particles are to being identical, t…

quant-ph2016★ 23 cited

NonClassicality Criteria in Multiport Interferometry

Luca Rigovacca, Carlo Di Franco, Benjamin J. Metcalf +2

Interference lies at the heart of the behavior of classical and quantum light. It is thus crucial to understand the boundaries between which interference patterns can be explained…

quant-ph2016★ 113 cited

A chip-based array of near-identical, pure, heralded single photon sources

Justin B. Spring, Paolo L. Mennea, Benjamin J. Metcalf +8

Interference between independent single photons is perhaps the most fundamental interaction in quantum optics. It has become increasingly important as a tool for optical quantum in…

physics.optics2016

An Optimal Design for Universal Multiport Interferometers

William R. Clements, Peter C. Humphreys, Benjamin J. Metcalf +2

Universal multiport interferometers, which can be programmed to implement any linear transformation between multiple channels, are emerging as a powerful tool for both classical an…

quant-ph2015★ 66 cited

Tomography of photon-number resolving continuous-output detectors

Peter C. Humphreys, Benjamin J. Metcalf, Thomas Gerrits +7

We report a comprehensive approach to analysing continuous-output photon detectors. We employ principal component analysis to maximise the information extracted, followed by a nove…

quant-ph2014★ 200 cited

Quantum teleportation on a photonic chip

Benjamin J. Metcalf, Justin B. Spring, Peter C. Humphreys +10

Quantum teleportation is a fundamental concept in quantum physics which now finds important applications at the heart of quantum technology including quantum relays, quantum repeat…

quant-ph2014★ 19 cited

Strain-optic active control for quantum integrated photonics

Peter C. Humphreys, Benjamin J. Metcalf, Justin B. Spring +5

We present a practical method for active phase control on a photonic chip that has immediate applications in quantum photonics. Our approach uses strain-optic modification of the r…

quant-ph2013★ 121 cited

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

Brice Calkins, Paolo L. Mennea, Adriana E. Lita +11

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…

quant-ph2013★ 159 cited

Linear Optical Quantum Computing in a Single Spatial Mode

Peter C. Humphreys, Benjamin J. Metcalf, Justin B. Spring +5

We present a scheme for linear optical quantum computing using time-bin encoded qubits in a single spatial mode. We show methods for single-qubit operations and heralded controlled…

quant-ph2013★ 120 cited

On-chip low loss heralded source of pure single photons

Justin B. Spring, Patrick S. Salter, Benjamin J. Metcalf +9

A key obstacle to the experimental realization of many photonic quantum-enhanced technologies is the lack of low-loss sources of single photons in pure quantum states. We demonstra…

quant-ph2012★ 843 cited

Boson Sampling on a Photonic Chip

Justin B. Spring, Benjamin J. Metcalf, Peter C. Humphreys +11

While universal quantum computers ideally solve problems such as factoring integers exponentially more efficiently than classical machines, the formidable challenges in building su…

quant-ph2012★ 169 cited

Multi-photon quantum interference in a multi-port integrated photonic device

Benjamin J. Metcalf, Nicholas Thomas-Peter, Justin B. Spring +11

Increasing the complexity of quantum photonic devices is essential for many optical information processing applications to reach a regime beyond what can be classically simulated,…

quant-ph2011★ 101 cited

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

Thomas Gerrits, Nicholas Thomas-Peter, James C. Gates +12

Integration is currently the only feasible route towards scalable photonic quantum processing devices that are sufficiently complex to be genuinely useful in computing, metrology,…

quant-ph2011★ 32 cited

Integrated Photonic Sensing

Nicholas Thomas-Peter, Nathan K Langford, Animesh Datta +8

Loss is a critical roadblock to achieving photonic quantum-enhanced technologies. We explore a modular platform for implementing integrated photonics experiments and consider the e…