Ultrafast Optics Group

Quantum Optics

We are interested in light that has special quantum properties and its application to spectroscopy and imaging. We have shown that the ideas and techniques used for quantum coherent control can be used to manipuilated nonclassical light. We demonstrated the shaping of single photons (or rather the correlation between two entangled photons).

We have also demonstrated new ways to form NOON states - highly entangled multiphoton 'Schrodinger Cat' states, and studied ways to characterize them. We have studied the spatial correlation of photons and their modification by spatial potentials and nonlinear effects.

Below are our publications in the field of quantum optics.

	“Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless crossover in a photonic lattice”, E. Small, R.Pugatch and Y. Silberberg Phys. Rev.83, 013806,(2011) PDF
	“Quantum Correlations in Anderson Localization of Indistinguishable Particles, Y. Lahini, Y. Bromberg, D.N. Christodoulides and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 163905 (2010). PDF “Bloch oscillations of path entangled photons” Y. Bromberg, Y. Lahini, Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 263604 (2010) PDF “Hanbury Brown and Twiss interferometry with interacting photons”, Y. Bromberg, Y. Lahini, E. Small and Y. Silberberg, Nature Photonics, 4, 721–726 (2010). PDF “Quantum walks of correlated particles” A. Peruzzo, M. Lobino, J. C. F. Matthews, N. Matsuda, A. Politi, K. Poulios, X-Q Zhou, Y. Lahini, N. Ismail, K. Wörhoff, Y. Bromberg, Y. Silberberg, M. G. Thompson, and J. L. O'Brien, Science, 329, 1500-1503, (2010)PDF “Correlated Multiphoton Holes: Absence of multiphoton coincidence events I. Afek, O. Ambar, Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett,105, 093603 (2010). PDF “High-NOON states by mixing Quantum and Classical Light” I. Afek, O. Ambar, Y. Silberberg, Science 328,* 879 – 881 (2010). PDF* “Classical Bound for Mach-Zehnder Superresolution” I. Afek, O. Ambar and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 104, 123602 (2010) PDF
	“Atoms and photons share quarters”, B. Dayan and Y. Silberberg, Nature Photonics 3, 429-430 (2009) PDF “Quantum and classical correlations in waveguide lattices” Y. Bromberg, Y. Lahini, R. Morandotti and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 102, 253904 (2009) PDF “Quantum state measurements using multipixel photon detectors”, I. Afek, A. Natan, O. Ambar, and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. A 79, 043830 (2009). PDF
	“Realization of Quantum Walks with Negligible Decoherence in Waveguide Lattices”, Hagai B. Perets, Yoav Lahini, Francesca Pozzi, Marc Sorel, Roberto Morandotti, and Yaron Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 100, 170506 (2008). PDF
	"Broadband Sum-Frequency Generation as an efficient two-photon detector for Optical Tomography”, A. Pe’er, Y. Bromberg, B. Dayan, Y. Silberberg and A. A. Friesem, Opt. Express. 15, 8760 (2007). PDF "Spectral polarization and spectral phase control of time-energy entangled photons", B. Dayan, Y. Bromberg, I. Afek, and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. A 75, 043804 (2007) PDF
	"Design of a high-power continuous source of broadband down-converted light", A. Pe'er, Y. Silberberg, B. Dayan, A.A. Friesem, Phys. Rev. A 74 053805 (2006) PDF
	“Temporal Shaping of Entangled Photons”, A. Pe’er, B. Dayan, A.A. Friesem and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 , 073601 (2005). PDF “Nonlinear Interactions with an Ultrahigh Flux of Broadband Entangled Photons” , B. Dayan, A. Pe’er, A.A. Friesem and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94 , 043602 (2005). PDF
	“Quantum Lithography by Coherent Control of Classical Pulses” A. Pe’er, B. Dayan, M. Vucelja, Y. Silberberg and A. A. Friesem, Opt. Express. 12, 6600 (2004). PDF “Two-photon absorption and coherent control with broadband down converted light” , B. Dayan, A. Peer, A.A. Friesem and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 , 023005 (2004). PDF
	“Coherent Control with Broadband Squeezed Vacuum”, B. Dayan, A. Pe’er, A.A. Friesem and Y. Silberberg, arXiv: quant-ph 302038 Feb 2003. PDF
	“Transform-limited pulses are not optimal for resonant multiphoton transitions”, N. Dudovich, B. Dayan, S. M. Gallagher Faeder and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. Lett., 86, 47 (2001). PDF
	“Coherent Quantum Control of Multiphoton Transitions by Shaped Ultrashort Optical Pulses”, D. Meshulach and Y. Silberberg, Phys. Rev. A., 60, 1287 (1999). PDF
	“Coherent Quantum Control of Two-Photon Transitions by a Femtosecond Laser Pulse” , D. Meshulach and Y. Silberberg, Nature, 396, 239-242 (1998). PDF