Tailoring photon pair emission characteristics via bi-chromatic excitation of an integrated nonlinear cavity

authored by
Alí M. Angulo M, Jan Heine, J. S.S.Duran Gomez, Hatam Mahmudlu, Raktim Haldar, Charalambos Klitis, Marc Sorel, Michael Kues
Abstract

The photon pair generation (PPG) via spontaneous four-wave mixing (SFWM) in an optically excited third-order nonlinear cavity forms large-scale high-dimensional quantum states, called quantum frequency combs (QFC). The scalable practical generation and control of these photonic states via integrated devices enable quantum information processing for applications in secured communications and quantum computing [1]. Modifying the excitation field properties in different degrees of freedom, e.g., polarization [2], frequency or spatial modes [3], allows controlling the structure of the generated quantum state by favoring different types of SFWM processes. In this work, by using two excitation fields and varying their intensity, P1 and P2, respectively, we demonstrate the occurrence of two different SFWM processes (degenerately and non-degenerately excited SFWM) and a control of the pair generation rate: µ(r, P) = µ1(P1(r, P)) + µ2(P2(r, P)) + µND(r, P), where P is the total excitation power, r = P1/P is the power ratio, µ1, µ2 describe the degenerate process and µND the non-degenerate process.

Organisation(s)
Institute of Photonics
PhoenixD: Photonics, Optics, and Engineering - Innovation Across Disciplines
External Organisation(s)
University of Glasgow
Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna di Studi Universitari e di Perfezionamento
Type
Conference contribution
No. of pages
1
Publication date
2023
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics
Electronic version(s)
https://doi.org/10.1109/CLEO/EUROPE-EQEC57999.2023.10232334 (Access: Closed)