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most citedUnconditional violation of the shot noise limit in photonic quantum metrology

247 citations · 936 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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22 papers

physics.optics2025

Mid-IR hyperspectral imaging with undetected photons

Marlon Placke, Chiara Lindner, Felix Mann +5

Sensing with undetected photons has become a vibrant, application-driven research domain with a special focus on the mid-infrared (mid-IR) wavelength region. Since the mid-IR conta…

quant-ph2025

Hong-Ou-Mandel effect with two frequency-entangled photons of vastly different color

Felix Mann, Helen M. Chrzanowski, Marlon Placke +2

In the original formulation of the Hong-Ou-Mandel (HOM) experiment, when two otherwise indistinguishable photons are incident upon the two input ports of a balanced beam splitter,…

quant-ph2024

Noise analysis of a quasi-phase-matched quantum frequency converter and higher-order counter-propagating SPDC

Felix Mann, Helen M. Chrzanowski, Felipe Gewers +2

Quantum frequency conversion (QFC) will be an indispensable ingredient in future quantum technologies. For example, large-scale fibre-based quantum networks will require QFC to int…

quant-ph2023★ 3 cited

Low-noise quantum frequency conversion in a monolithic cavity with bulk periodically poled potassium titanyl phosphate

Felix Mann, Helen M. Chrzanowski, Felipe Gewers +2

Interfacing the different building blocks of a future large scale quantum network will demand efficient and noiseless frequency conversion of quantum light. Nitrogen-vacancy (NV) c…

physics.optics2021★ 46 cited

Mid-IR spectroscopy with NIR grating spectrometers

Paul Kaufmann, Helen M. Chrzanowski, Aron Vanselow +1

Mid-infrared (mid-IR) spectroscopy is a crucial workhorse for a plethora of analytical applications and is suitable for diverse materials, including gases, polymers or biological t…

quant-ph2021★ 6 cited

Reconstruction of photon number conditioned states using phase randomized homodyne measurements

H. M. Chrzanowski, S. M. Assad, Julien Bernu +5

We experimentally demonstrate the reconstruction of a photon number conditioned state without using a photon number discriminating detector. By using only phase randomized homodyne…

quant-ph2021★ 40 cited

Mid-Infrared Microscopy via Position Correlations of Undetected Photons

Inna Kviatkovsky, Helen M. Chrzanowski, Sven Ramelow

Quantum imaging with undetected photons (QIUP) has recently emerged as a new powerful imaging tool. Exploiting the spatial entanglement of photon pairs, it allows decoupling of the…

quant-ph2021★ 8 cited

Low random duty-cycle errors in periodically-poled KTP revealed by sum-frequency generation

Felix Mann, Helen M. Chrzanowski, Sven Ramelow

Low-noise quantum frequency conversion in periodically-poled nonlinear crystals has proved challenging when the pump wavelength is shorter than the target wavelength. This is - at…

physics.optics2020

Frequency-domain optical coherence tomography with undetected mid-infrared photons

Aron Vanselow, Paul Kaufmann, Ivan Zorin +3

Mid-infrared light scatters much less than shorter wavelengths, allowing greatly enhanced penetration depths for optical imaging techniques such as optical coherence tomography (OC…

quant-ph2020★ 47 cited

Quantum-enhanced stimulated emission microscopy

Gil Triginer Garces, Helen M. Chrzanowski, Shakib Daryanoosh +6

Nonlinear optical microscopy techniques have emerged as a set of successful tools for biological imaging. Stimulated emission microscopy belongs to a small subset of pump-probe tec…

physics.optics2020

Microscopy with undetected photons in the mid-infrared

Inna Kviatkovsky, Helen M. Chrzanowski, Ellen G. Avery +2

Owing to its capacity for unique (bio)-chemical specificity, microscopy withmid-IR illumination holds tremendous promise for a wide range of biomedical and industrial applications.…

quant-ph2020★ 39 cited

Interfering distinguishable photons

Alex E. Jones, Adrian J. Menssen, Helen M. Chrzanowski +3

One of the central principles of quantum mechanics is that if there are multiple paths that lead to the same event, and there is no way to distinguish between them, interference oc…

quant-ph2019★ 52 cited

Ultra-broadband SPDC for spectrally far separated photon pairs

Aron Vanselow, Paul Kaufmann, Helen M. Chrzanowski +1

Generating photon pairs via spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in nonlinear crystals is important for a wide range of quantum optics experiments with spectral properties…

quant-ph2018★ 5 cited

Entanglement properties of a measurement-based entanglement distillation experiment

Hao Jeng, Spyros Tserkis, Jing Yan Haw +5

Measures of entanglement can be employed for the analysis of numerous quantum information protocols. Due to computational convenience, logarithmic negativity is often the choice in…

quant-ph2017★ 247 cited

Unconditional violation of the shot noise limit in photonic quantum metrology

Sergei Slussarenko, Morgan M. Weston, Helen M. Chrzanowski +4

Interferometric phase measurement is widely used to precisely determine quantities such as length, speed, and material properties. Without quantum correlations, the best phase sens…

quant-ph2017★ 40 cited

Gaussian Optical Ising Machines

William R. Clements, Jelmer J. Renema, Y. Henry Wen +3

It has recently been shown that optical parametric oscillator (OPO) Ising machines, consisting of coupled optical pulses circulating in a cavity with parametric gain, can be used t…

quant-ph2016★ 40 cited

Heralded quantum steering over a high-loss channel

Morgan M. Weston, Sergei Slussarenko, Helen M. Chrzanowski +6

Entanglement is the key resource for many long-range quantum information tasks, including secure communication and fundamental tests of quantum physics. These tasks require robust…

quant-ph2016★ 88 cited

Efficient and pure femtosecond-pulse-length source of polarization-entangled photons

Morgan M. Weston, Helen M. Chrzanowski, Sabine Wollmann +9

We present a source of polarization entangled photon pairs based on spontaneous parametric downconversion engineered for frequency uncorrelated telecom photon generation. Our sourc…

quant-ph2013★ 14 cited

Experimental Verification of Quantum Discord in Continuous-Variable States

S. Hosseini, S. Rahimi-Keshari, J. Y. Haw +6

We introduce a simple and efficient technique to verify quantum discord in unknown Gaussian states and a certain class of non-Gaussian states. We show that any separation in the pe…

quant-ph2012★ 224 cited

Operational Significance of Discord Consumption: Theory and Experiment

Mile Gu, Helen M. Chrzanowski, Syed M. Assad +5

Coherent interactions that generate negligible entanglement can still exhibit unique quantum behaviour. This observation has motivated a search beyond entanglement for a complete d…

physics.ins-det2011★ 29 cited

A Scalable, Self-Analyzing Digital Locking System for use on Quantum Optics Experiments

B. M. Sparkes, H. M. Chrzanowski, D. P. Parrain +3

Digital control of optics experiments has many advantages over analog control systems, specifically in terms of scalability, cost, flexibility, and the integration of system inform…

quant-ph2011★ 8 cited

Demonstrating various quantum effects with two entangled laser beams

B. Hage, J. Janoušek, S. Armstrong +5

We report on the preparation of entangled two mode squeezed states of yet unseen quality. Based on a measurement of the covariance matrix we found a violation of the Reid and Drumm…