Classical Optics and Optical Devices

Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent

John E. Sipe, Marco Liscidini

The quantum-correlated photon pairs that would be generated by a nonlinear optical device, were it operated in the quantum regime, can be characterized by nonlinear optical experiments done on the device in the classical regime.

L. G. Helt, Marco Liscidini, John E. Sipe

We present simple expressions for the power generated via continuous-wave classical and quantum nonlinear optical processes in integrated devices, making it easy to benchmark quantum performance based on the results of classical experiments.

Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent

A. Matthew Smith, Shannon M. Ray, Daniel Koch +3 more

We describe a minimal set of classical measurements for characterizing and calibrating optical multiport devices that leads to a direct element by element measurement of the device’s unitary transfer function matrix.

Pierre Meystre, Murray Sargent