Publications

Underlined co-authors are Trinity students

Search for patterns in sequences of single-photon polarization measurements
David Branning, Adam Katcher, Wayne Strange, and Mark P. Silverman, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 28, 1423 (2011)
(This paper was published in the Journal of the Optical Society of America B and is made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of OSA. The paper can be found at the following URL on the OSA website: www.opticsinfobase.org/josab/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-28-6-1423. Systematic or multiple reproduction or distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means is prohibited and is subject to penalties under law.)

Scalable multi-photon coincidence-counting electronics
David Branning, Sarthak Khanal, Young Ho Shin, Brandon Clary, and Mark Beck, Rev. Sci. Inst. 82, 016102 (2011)
Extra diagrams and photographs of the electronics are in the supplemental material for this article.

Testing quantum randomness in single-photon polarization measurements with the NIST test suite
David Branning and Matthew Bermudez, J. Opt. Soc. Am. B 27, 1594 (2010)
(This paper was published in the Journal of the Optical Society of America B and is made available as an electronic reprint with the permission of OSA. The paper can be found at the following URL on the OSA website: www.opticsinfobase.org/josab/abstract.cfm?URI=josab-27-8-1594. Systematic or multiple reproduction or distribution to multiple locations via electronic or other means is prohibited and is subject to penalties under law.)

Low-cost coincidence-counting electronics for undergraduate quantum optics
David Branning, Sagar Bhandari, and Mark Beck, Am. J. Phys. 77, 667 (2009)
(Copyright 2009, American Association of Physics Teachers. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Association of Physics Teachers.)

Measurement of geometric phase for mixed states using single-photon interferometry
M. Ericsson, D. Achilles, J. T. Barreiro, D. Branning, N. A. Peters, and P. G. Kwiat, Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 050401 (2005)

Synthesizing arbitrary two-photon polarization mixed states
T.-C. Wei, J. B. Altepeter, D. Branning, P. M. Goldbart, D. F. V. James, E. Jeffrey, P. G. Kwiat, S. Mukhopadhyay, and N. A. Peters, Phys. Rev. A 71, 032329 (2005)

Maximally entangled mixed states: creation and concentration (with erratum)
N. Peters, J. B. Altepeter, D.Branning, E. Jeffrey, T. C. Wei, and P. G. Kwiat, Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 133601 (2004)

Demonstration of an all-optical quantum controlled-NOT gate
J. L. O’Brien, G. J. Pryde, A. G. White, T. C. Ralph, and D. Branning, Nature 426, 264 (2003)

Ancilla-assisted quantum process tomography
J. B. Altepeter, D. Branning, E. Jeffrey, T. C. Wei, P. G. Kwiat, R. J. Thew, J. L. O'Brien, M. A. Nielsen, and A. G. White, Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 193601 (2003)

Tailoring single-photon and multiphoton probabilities of a single-photon on-demand source
A. L. Migdall, D. Branning, and S. Castelletto, Phys. Rev. A 66, 053805 (2002)

Simultaneous measurement of group and phase delay between two photons
D. Branning, A. Migdall, and A. V. Sergienko, Phys. Rev. A 62, 063808 (2000)

Calculating characteristics of non-collinear phase-matching in uniaxial and biaxial crystals
N. Boeuf, D. Branning, I. Chaperot, E. Dauler, S. Guerin, G. Jaeger, A. Muller, and A. Migdall, Opt. Eng. 39, 1016 (2000)

Restoring dispersion cancellation for entangled photons produced by ultra-short pulses
R. Erdmann, D. Branning, W. P. Grice, and I. A. Walmsley, Phys. Rev. A 62, 053810 (2000)

Interferometric technique for engineering the indistinguishability and entanglement of photon pairs
D. Branning, W. P. Grice, R. Erdmann, and I. A. Walmsley, Phys. Rev. A 62, 013814 (2000)

Engineering the indistinguishability and entanglement of two photons
D. Branning, W. P. Grice, R. Erdmann, and I. A. Walmsley, Phys. Rev. Lett. 83, 955 (1999)

Multiphoton interference effects at a beamsplitter
A. Kuzmich, D. Branning, L. Mandel, and I. A. Walmsley, J. Mod. Opt. 45, 2233 (1998)
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Spectral distinguishability in ultrafast parametric downconversion
W. P. Grice, R. Erdmann, I. A. Walmsley, and D. Branning, Phys. Rev. A 57, R2289 (1998)

Experimental test of Selleri's variable photodetection-probability model
A. Garuccio, J. R. Torgerson, C. H. Monken, D. Branning, and L. Mandel, Phys. Rev. A 53, 2944 (1996)

Generating mutual coherence from incoherence with the help of a phase-conjugate mirror
C. H. Monken, A. Garuccio, D. Branning, J. R. Torgerson, F. Narducci, and L. Mandel, Phys. Rev. A 53, 1782 (1996)

Violations of locality in polarization-correlation measurements with phase shifters
J. R. Torgerson, D. Branning, C. H. Monken, and L. Mandel, Phys. Rev. A 51, 4400 (1995)

Experimental demonstration of the violation of local realism without Bell inequalities(with comment and reply)
J. R. Torgerson, D. Branning, C. H. Monken, and L. Mandel, Phys. Lett. A 204, 323 (1995); ibid. 214, 319 (1996)
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A method of demonstrating violation of local realism with a two-photon downconverter without use of Bell inequalities
J. R. Torgerson, D. Branning, and L. Mandel, Appl. Phys. B 60, 267 (1994)
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Interference and indistinguishability governed by time delays in a low-Q cavity
T. P. Grayson, X. Y. Zou, D. Branning, J. R. Torgerson, and L. Mandel, Phys. Rev. A 48, 4793 (1993)



Ph.D. Thesis

Optical Tests of Complementarity and Nonlocality (232 pages)
Ph.D. Advisor: Leonard Mandel, University of Rochester (1998)

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