Quantum Noise in Large-Scale Coherent Nonlinear Photonic Circuits

Physical Review Applied

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Santori, Charles ^a   Pelc, Jason S ^a   Beausoleil, Raymond G ^a   Tezak, Nikolas ^a,b   Hamerly, Ryan ^a,b   Mabuchi, Hideo ^a,b  

^a HEWLETT PACKARD LABORATORIES   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PHOTONS; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RANDOM ERRORS; RESONATORS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS; TIMING CIRCUITS;

LARGE-SCALE CIRCUITS; NONLINEAR PHOTONICS; QUANTUM FLUCTUATION; QUANTUM SIMULATIONS; SEMICLASSICAL APPROACHES; SEMICLASSICAL SIMULATION; STOCHASTIC DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; WIGNER QUASIPROBABILITY;

QUANTUM NOISE;

EID: 84930088377     PISSN: None     EISSN: 23317019     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.1.054005     Document Type: Article

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