Maria Chekhova

Prof. Dr. Maria Chekhova

Department of Physics
Institute of Optics, Information and Photonics

Raum 01.428
Staudtstr. 7/B2
91058 Erlangen

Phone number: +49 9131 85-28373
Fax number: +49 9131 13508
Email: maria.chekhova@fau.de
Website: https://mpl.mpg.de/research-at-mpl/independent-research-groups/chekhova-research-group/

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Publications

Heimerl J., Rasputnyi A., Pölloth J., Meier S., Chekhova M., Hommelhoff P.:
Quantum light drives electrons strongly at metal needle tips
In: Nature Physics (2025)
ISSN: 1745-2473
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-025-03087-1
Noh J., Santiago-Cruz T., Doiron CF., June H., Yu J., Addamane SJ., Chekhova MV., Brener I.:
Interference of Biphotons Emitted by Resonant Metasurfaces
2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2025 (Long Beach, CA, USA, 4. May 2025 - 9. May 2025)
In: 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2025 2025
Noh J., Santiago-Cruz T., Doiron CF., Jung H., Yu J., Addamane SJ., Chekhova MV., Brener I.:
Fano interference of photon pairs from a metasurface
In: Light: Science & Applications 14 (2025), Article No.: 371
ISSN: 2047-7538
DOI: 10.1038/s41377-025-01998-5
Rasputnyi A., Heimerl J., Pölloth J., Meier S., Tani F., Chekhova M., Hommelhoff P.:
Strong field electron emission driven by a bright squeezed vacuum
2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025 (Munich, DEU, 23. June 2025 - 27. June 2025)
In: 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2025 2025
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC65582.2025.11110135
Sorensen NJ., Sultanov V., Chekhova MV.:
A simple model for entangled photon generation in resonant structures
In: Optics Express 33 (2025), p. 13946-13960
ISSN: 1094-4087
DOI: 10.1364/OE.555205
Zotti G., Hashimoto K., Horoshko DB., Kolobov MI., Michael Y., Gefen Z., Chekhova MV.:
Fourier-Domain Low-Coherence Interferometry with Undetected Mid-Infrared Photons in the High-Gain Regime
2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2025 (Long Beach, CA, USA, 4. May 2025 - 9. May 2025)
In: 2025 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2025 2025

Brunner CM., Chekhova MV., Joly NY.:
Third-order parametric down-conversion in tapered optical fibers: An exact theoretical treatment of conversion efficiency
Nonlinear Optics and its Applications 2024 (Strasbourg, FRA, 8. April 2024 - 11. April 2024)
In: John M. Dudley, Anna C. Peacock, Birgit Stiller, Giovanna Tissoni (ed.): Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 2024
DOI: 10.1117/12.3016899
Chekhova MV.:
Spontaneous parametric down-conversion in ultrathin samples
Nonlinear Optics and its Applications 2024 (Strasbourg, FRA, 8. April 2024 - 11. April 2024)
In: John M. Dudley, Anna C. Peacock, Birgit Stiller, Giovanna Tissoni (ed.): Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 2024
DOI: 10.1117/12.3016302
Hashimoto K., Horoshko DB., Kolobov MI., Michael Y., Gefen Z., Chekhova MV.:
Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy with undetected photons from high-gain spontaneous parametric down-conversion
In: Communications Physics 7 (2024), Article No.: 217
ISSN: 2399-3650
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-024-01717-3
Heimerl J., Mikhaylov A., Meier S., Höllerer H., Kaminer I., Chekhova M., Hommelhoff P.:
Multiphoton electron emission with non-classical light
In: Nature Physics (2024)
ISSN: 1745-2473
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-024-02472-6
Kavčič A., Sultanov V., Kokkinakis E., Sebastián N., Chekhova M., Humar M.:
Liquid crystals as new tunable sources of entangled photon pairs
Photonics for Quantum 2024 (Waterloo, ON, 17. June 2024 - 20. June 2024)
In: Michael Reimer, Nir Rotenberg, Donald F. Figer (ed.): Photonics for Quantum 2024 2024
DOI: 10.1117/12.3023811
Noh J., Santiago-Cruz T., Gennaro SD., Sultanov V., Brener I., Chekhova MV.:
Polarization tomography of photon pairs emitted by nonlinear metasurfaces with quasi-bound states in the continuum resonances
CLEO: Fundamental Science, CLEO:FS 2024 - Part of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2024 (Charlotte, NC, USA, 5. May 2024 - 10. May 2024)
In: CLEO: Fundamental Science, CLEO:FS 2024 in Proceedings CLEO 2024 - Part of Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics 2024
Noh J., Santiago-Cruz T., Sultanov V., Doiron CF., Gennaro SD., Chekhova MV., Brener I.:
Quantum Pair Generation in Nonlinear Metasurfaces with Mixed and Pure Photon Polarizations
In: Nano Letters (2024)
ISSN: 1530-6984
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c04398
Rácz É., Spasibko K., Manceau M., Ruppert L., Chekhova MV., Filip R.:
Quantitative analysis of the intensity distribution of optical rogue waves
In: Communications Physics 7 (2024), Article No.: 119
ISSN: 2399-3650
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-024-01592-y
Saerens G., Ellrott G., Pashina O., Deriy I., Krstic V., Petrov M., Chekhova M., Grange R.:
Second-Order Nonlinear Circular Dichroism in Square Lattice Array of Germanium Nanohelices
In: ACS Photonics 11 (2024), p. 3630-3635
ISSN: 2330-4022
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.4c00721
Sultanov V., Chekhova M.:
Temporally Distilled High-Dimensional Biphotonic States from Thin Sources
In: ACS Photonics 11 (2024), p. 2-6
ISSN: 2330-4022
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.3c01169
Sultanov V., Kavčič A., Kokkinakis E., Sebastián N., Chekhova M., Humar M.:
Tunable entangled photon-pair generation in a liquid crystal
In: Nature 631 (2024), p. 294-299
ISSN: 0028-0836
DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07543-5
Sultanov V., Kavčič A., Kokkinakis M., Humar M., Chekhova M.:
Tunable liquid-crystal source of photon pairs
CLEO: Science and Innovations 2024 (Charlotte, NC, 5. May 2024 - 10. May 2024)
In: CLEO: Science and Innovations 2024 2024
DOI: 10.1364/CLEO_SI.2024.STh1F.6

Ellrott G., Beck P., Sultanov V., Rothau S., Lindlein N., Chekhova M., Krstic V.:
Collectively Enhanced Giant Circular Dichroism of Germanium Nanohelix Square Lattice Arrays
In: Advanced Photonics Research 4 (2023)
ISSN: 2699-9293
DOI: 10.1002/adpr.202300159
Hashimoto K., Chekhova MV.:
Broadband Sensing with Undetected Photons with Strong Parametric Amplification
2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2023 (San Jose, CA, USA, 7. May 2023 - 12. May 2023)
In: 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2023 2023
Hashimoto K., Horoshko DB., Chekhova MV.:
Broadband Spectroscopy and Interferometry with Undetected Photons at Strong Parametric Amplification
In: Advanced Quantum Technologies (2023)
ISSN: 2511-9044
DOI: 10.1002/qute.202300299
Kalash M., Chekhova MV.:
Wigner function tomography via optical parametric amplification
In: Optica 10 (2023), p. 1142-1146
ISSN: 2334-2536
DOI: 10.1364/OPTICA.488697
Kulkarni G., Amooei M., Rioux J., Braverman B., Upham J., Chekhova M., Boyd RW.:
Characterizing the spatiotemporal correlations of bright entangled quantum states of light using classical methods
2023 Optica Nonlinear Optics Topical Meeting, NLO 2023 (Honolulu, HI, 10. July 2023 - 13. July 2023)
In: Optica Nonlinear Optics Topical Meeting 2023 2023
DOI: 10.1364/NLO.2023.W1A.2
Lopez-Huidobro S., Chekhova MV., Joly NY.:
Tunable Fiber Source of Entangled Ultraviolet and Infrared Photons
2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2023 (San Jose, CA, USA, 7. May 2023 - 12. May 2023)
In: 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2023 2023
Lopez-Huidobro S., Noureddin M., Chekhova MV., Joly NY.:
Tunable fiber source of entangled UV-C and infrared photons
In: Optics Letters 48 (2023), p. 3423-3426
ISSN: 0146-9592
DOI: 10.1364/OL.494917
Panahiyan S., Muñoz CS., Chekhova MV., Schlawin F.:
Nonlinear Interferometry for Quantum-Enhanced Measurements of Multiphoton Absorption
In: Physical Review Letters 130 (2023), Article No.: 203604
ISSN: 0031-9007
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.130.203604
Son C., Sultanov V., Santiago Cruz T., Anthur APP., Zhang H., Paniagua-Dominguez R., Krivitsky L., Kuznetsov AII., Chekhova M.:
Photon pairs bi-directionally emitted from a resonant metasurface
In: Nanoscale (2023)
ISSN: 2040-3364
DOI: 10.1039/d2nr05499j
Toa ZS., Chekhova MV., Krivitsky LA., Paterova AV.:
Crystal superlattices for versatile and sensitive quantum spectroscopy
In: Optics Express 31 (2023), p. 7265-7276
ISSN: 1094-4087
DOI: 10.1364/OE.477019
Zilli A., Sultanov V., Poloczek M., Ferrera M., Luan Y., Kokkinakis ET., Santiago-Cruz T., Carletti L., Toma A., Finazzi M., Chekhova MV., Celebrano M.:
Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion Beaming from a Lithium Niobate Nanostructured Resonator
2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 (Munich, DEU, 26. June 2023 - 30. June 2023)
In: 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC 2023 2023
DOI: 10.1109/CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC57999.2023.10232211

Cutipa P., Chekhova MV.:
Bright squeezed vacuum for two-photon spectroscopy: Simultaneously high resolution in time and frequency, space and wavevector
In: Optics Letters 47 (2022), p. 465-468
ISSN: 0146-9592
DOI: 10.1364/OL.448352
Gennaro SD., Santiago-Cruz T., Mitrofanov O., Vabishchevich PP., Addamane S., Bethke D., Reno J., Chekhova MV., Brener I.:
SPDC Conversion from Bound State in the Continuum in Semiconductor Metasurfaces: Polarization Properties
CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, QELS 2022 (San Jose, CA, USA, 15. May 2022 - 20. May 2022)
In: Optics InfoBase Conference Papers 2022
Heimerl J., Mikhaylov A., Meier S., Höllerer H., Kaminer I., Chekhova M., Hommelhoff P.:
Statistics of multiphoton photoemission under coherent and non-classical illumination
CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, QELS 2022 (San Jose, CA, USA, 15. May 2022 - 20. May 2022)
In: Optics InfoBase Conference Papers 2022
Kulkarni G., Rioux J., Braverman B., Chekhova M., Boyd RW.:
Classical model of spontaneous parametric down-conversion
In: Physical Review Research 4 (2022)
ISSN: 2643-1564
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.033098
Panahiyan S., Sanchez Munoz C., Chekhova M., Schlawin F.:
Two-photon-absorption measurements in the presence of single-photon losses
In: Physical Review A 106 (2022)
ISSN: 1050-2947
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.106.043706
Rasputnyi AV., Kopylov DA., Murzina TV., Chekhova MV.:
Cascaded frequency up-conversion of bright squeezed vacuum: Spectral and correlation properties
In: Optics Letters 47 (2022), p. 766-769
ISSN: 0146-9592
DOI: 10.1364/OL.448790
Rioux J., Kulkarni G., Braverman B., Chekhova MV., Boyd R.:
Experimental measurement of the orbital-angular-momentum spectrum in high-gain parametric down-conversion
CLEO: Science and Innovations, S and I 2022 (San Jose, CA, USA, 15. May 2022 - 20. May 2022)
In: Optics InfoBase Conference Papers 2022
Rojas-Santana A., Machado GJ., Chekhova M., Lopez-Mago D., Torres JP.:
Analysis of the signal measured in spectral-domain optical coherence tomography based on nonlinear interferometers
In: Physical Review A 106 (2022), Article No.: 033702
ISSN: 1050-2947
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.106.033702
Santiago Cruz T., Gennaro SD., Mitrofanov O., Addamane S., Reno J., Brener I., Chekhova M.:
Resonant metasurfaces for generating complex quantum states
In: Science 377 (2022), p. 991-995
ISSN: 0036-8075
DOI: 10.1126/science.abq8684
Santiago-Cruz T., Gennaro SD., Mitrofanov O., Vabishchevich PP., Addamane S., Bethke D., Reno J., Brener I., Chekhova MV.:
Photon Pair Generation from Bound States in the Continuum in Nonlinear Metasurfaces
CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, QELS 2022 (San Jose, CA, USA, 15. May 2022 - 20. May 2022)
In: Optics InfoBase Conference Papers 2022
Sultanov V., Santiago Cruz T., Chekhova M.:
Flat-optics generation of broadband photon pairs with tunable polarization entanglement
In: Optics Letters 47 (2022), p. 3872-3875
ISSN: 0146-9592
DOI: 10.1364/OL.458133
Sultanov V., Santiago-Cruz T., Chekhova MV.:
Polarization-Entangled Photons From Ultrathin Nonlinear Layers
CLEO: QELS_Fundamental Science, QELS 2022 (San Jose, CA, USA, 15. May 2022 - 20. May 2022)
In: Optics InfoBase Conference Papers 2022
Toa ZS., Paterova AV., Chekhova MV., Krivitsky LA.:
Versatile Superlattice-enhanced Quantum Sensing
Optical Sensors, Sensors 2022 (Vancouver, BC, CAN, 11. July 2022 - 15. July 2022)
In: Optics InfoBase Conference Papers 2022
Wang K., Chekhova M., Kivshar Y.:
METASURFACES for quantum technologies
In: Physics Today 75 (2022), p. 38-44
ISSN: 0031-9228
DOI: 10.1063/pt.3.5062

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