Integrated photon-pair sources with nonlinear optics

Y Wang, KD Jöns, Z Sun - Applied Physics Reviews, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Assisted by the rapid development of photonic integrated circuits, scalable and versatile chip-
based quantum light sources with nonlinear optics are increasingly tangible for real-world …

Lithium niobate on insulator: an emerging platform for integrated quantum photonics

S Saravi, T Pertsch, F Setzpfandt - Advanced Optical Materials, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Due to its properties, lithium niobate is one of the most suitable material platforms for the
implementation of integrated optical quantum circuits. With the commercialization of lithium …

Directionally tunable co-and counterpropagating photon pairs from a nonlinear metasurface

MA Weissflog, J Ma, J Zhang, T Fan, S Lung… - …, 2024 - degruyter.com
Nonlinear metasurfaces have recently been established as a new platform for generating
photon pairs via spontaneous parametric down-conversion. While for classical harmonic …

[HTML][HTML] Nonlinear nanoresonators for Bell state generation

MA Weissflog, R Dezert, V Vinel, C Gigli, G Leo… - Applied Physics …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Entangled photon states are a fundamental resource for optical quantum technologies and
investigating the fundamental predictions of quantum mechanics. Up to now such states are …

Counter-propagating photon pair generation in a nonlinear waveguide

KH Luo, V Ansari, M Massaro, M Santandrea… - Optics …, 2020 - opg.optica.org
Counter-propagating parametric conversion processes in non-linear bulk crystals have been
shown to feature unique properties for efficient narrowband frequency conversion. In …

Biphoton sha** with cascaded entangled-photon sources

A Riazi, C Chen, EY Zhu, AV Gladyshev… - npj Quantum …, 2019 - nature.com
Quantum entanglement is an integral part of quantum optics and has been exploited in
areas such as computation, cryptography and metrology. The entanglement between …

Graphene as a source of entangled plasmons

Z Sun, DN Basov, MM Fogler - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
We analyze nonlinear optics schemes for generating pairs of quantum entangled plasmons
in the terahertz-infrared range in graphene. We predict that high plasmonic field …

Quantum ghost imaging with improved diffraction limit

DA Balakin, AV Belinsky - Quantum Information Processing, 2022 - Springer
Traditional quantum ghost imaging technique uses three-photon spontaneous parametric
down-conversion for producing beams of entangled photons. Two main factors limiting the …

Recent progress in thin-film lithium niobate photonic crystal

R Ge, J Wu, X Liu, Y Chen, X Chen - Chinese Optics Letters, 2024 - opg.optica.org
Lithium niobate is a material that exhibits outstanding electro-optic, nonlinear optical,
acousto-optic, piezoelectric, photorefractive, and pyroelectric properties. A thin-film lithium …

Generation of narrowband counterpropagating polarization-entangled photon pairs based on thin-film lithium niobate on insulator

JC Duan, JN Zhang, YJ Zhu, CW Sun, YC Liu, P Xu… - JOSA B, 2020 - opg.optica.org
We propose a scheme for the generation of counterpropagating polarization-entangled
photon pairs from a periodically poled lithium niobate on insulator waveguide. The …