Boulat A. Bash, Andrei H. Gheorghe, Monika Patel, Jonathan L. Habif, Dennis Goeckel, Don Towsley, and Saikat Guha School of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA 01003, Quantum Information Processing Group, Raytheon BBN Technologies, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 02138, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA 01002, Electrical and Computer Engineering D...

A double-periodic array of pairs of parallel gold nanorods is shown to have a negative refractive index in the optical range. Such behavior results from the plasmon resonance in the pairs of nanorods for both the electric and the magnetic components of light. The refractive index is retrieved from direct phase and amplitude measurements for transmission and reflection, which are all in excellen...

We prove that, under certain conditions, the capacity of an optical communication channel with in-line, nonlinear filtering (regeneration) elements can be higher than the Shannon capacity for the corresponding linear Gaussian white noise channel.

The optimal discrimination of nonorthogonal quantum states with minimum error probability is a fundamental task in quantum measurement theory as well as an important primitive in optical communication. In this work, we propose and experimentally realize a new and simple quantum measurement strategy capable of discriminating two coherent states with smaller error probabilities than can be obtain...

Optical communication are necessary for achieving reliable, fast and flexible communication. Advances in electro-optic technologies have made optical communication a reliable networking choice to meet the increasing demands for high bandwidth and low communication latency of high-performance computing/communication applications. So optical networks gives high performance as well as low latency....

We propose several techniques to modulate the local amplitude of quasi-phase-matched (QPM) interactions in periodically poled lithium niobate waveguides and demonstrate apodization by using each of these techniques. When the hard edges are removed in the spatial profile of the nonlinear coupling, the sidelobes of the frequency tuning curves are suppressed by 13 dB or more, compared with a unifo...

A single-threshold processor is derived for a wide class of classical binary decision problems involving the likelihood-ratio detection of a signal embedded in noise. The class of problems we consider encompasses the case of multiple independent (but not necessarily identically distributed) observations of a nonnegative (nonpositive) signal, embedded in additive, independent, and noninterfering...

It has been shown previously that the spatial coherence of a source can be modulated and demodulated; hence it can be used as the basis for a new dimension of multiplexing in high-speed optical communication links. We address the sensitivity of such a system to misalignments of the receiver with respect to the beam and examine how changing transverse modes affect the spatial coherence in the la...

Tracking a randomly varying optical phase is a key task in metrology, with applications in optical communication. The best precision for optical-phase tracking has until now been limited by the quantum vacuum fluctuations of coherent light. Here, we surpass this coherent-state limit by using a continuous-wave beam in a phase-squeezed quantum state. Unlike in previous squeezing-enhanced metrolog...

Ultra-small all-optical switches are of importance in highly integrated optical communication and computing networks. However, the weak nonlinear light-matter interactions in natural materials present an enormous challenge to realize efficiently switching for the ultra-short interaction lengths. Here, we experimentally demonstrate a submicron bidirectional all-optical plasmonic switch with an a...