26th Australian Institute of Physics Congress and the Australian and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics

Session

ANZCOP: Quantum Light, Control & Squeezing

ANZCOP

9 Dec 2026, 11:00

Belinda Hutchinson Building (The University of Sydney )

Conveners

ANZCOP: Quantum Light, Control & Squeezing

• Daniel Blumenthal (Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA)

811. Orchestrating nanomechanical motion with light

Jesse Slim (School of Mathematics and Physics, University of Queensland)

09/12/2026, 11:00

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Invited talk

Radiation pressure makes light a uniquely clean and flexible tool for controlling motion at the nanoscale. We use it to couple nanomechanical resonators into small networks, linked by laser-driven optomechanical 'springs' that can be programmed in situ. By modulating the laser fields, we can also break acoustic symmetries that normally constrain mechanical vibrations, in particular...

707. Dual quadrature readout of a waveguide based two mode squeezed light source

Chathura Bandutunga (Australian National University)

09/12/2026, 11:30

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Squeezed states of light are an established resource for continuous variable quantum enhanced precision measurements, with frequency nondegenerate (two mode) squeezed states being particularly relevant for quantum communication and sensing [1]. These states are conventionally generated using optical cavity based optical parametric oscillators, where the entangled sideband pairs are generated...

570. Pulsed driving of spin systems as deterministic sources of quantum states of light

Rory Robertson (University of Auckland)

09/12/2026, 11:45

ANZOS | Quantum and Atom Optics (ANZCOP QAO)

Contributed Oral

The generation of specific quantum states of light is incredibly important for the emergence of many quantum technologies, but remains a challenging task. For example, Gottesman-Kitaev-Preskill (GKP) states are current frontrunners for use in quantum error correction within photonic quantum computing models. Most proposed methods for generating particular quantum states of light are...

738. Towards the Generation of Quantum Light with Exciton-Polariton Bose-Einstein Condensates

Sheil Sequeira (The Australian National University)

09/12/2026, 12:00

ANZOS | Photonics and Optics (ANZCOP)

Contributed Oral

Exciton-polaritons are quasiparticles that arise in semiconductors from the strong coupling between light (microcavity photon fields) and matter (bound electron-hole pairs called excitons). Being bosonic particles, polaritons undergo Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) - a phase transition wherein a large number of particles collectively occupy the ground state of the system. Since polaritons...

320. Measuring Bosonic Observables via Bosonic Quantum Signal Processing

Teerawat Chalermpusitarak (University of Sydney)

09/12/2026, 12:15

ANZOS | Quantum Computing and Quantum Information (ANZCOP QCQI)

Contributed Oral

Quantum harmonic oscillators play a crucial role across quantum computation, simulation, and sensing. Across all of these applications, a common and essential prerequisite is the ability to extract information from the oscillator whether to read out the outcome of a computation, to measure observables of a simulated system, or to obtain a sensing signal. While existing readout methods for...