Periodic Reporting for period 1 - ESSENS (Efficient Detection of Squeezed Light on Nanophotonic Chips using Subwavelength-Engineered Superconducting Nanowire Avalanche Photodetectors)

The ESSENS project aims at implementing a photonic integrated chip that features high system detection efficiency to exploit the potential of squeezed states of light for quantum simulation, communication and sensing applications. Light in a squeezed state exhibits reduced...