High-efficiency On-chip Quantum Photon Source in Modal Phase-matched Lithium Niobate Nanowaveguide

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Autores principales: Fang, Xiao-Xu, Du, Hao-Yang, Zhang, Xiuquan, Wang, Lei, Chen, Feng, Lu, He
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author Fang, Xiao-Xu
Du, Hao-Yang
Zhang, Xiuquan
Wang, Lei
Chen, Feng
Lu, He
author_facet Fang, Xiao-Xu
Du, Hao-Yang
Zhang, Xiuquan
Wang, Lei
Chen, Feng
Lu, He
contents Thin-film lithium niobate on insulator~(LNOI) emerges as a promising platform for integrated quantum photon source, enabling scalable on-chip quantum information processing. The most popular technique to overcome the phase mismatching between interacting waves in waveguide is periodic poling, which is intrinsically sensitive to poling uniformity. Here, we report an alternative strategy to offset the phase mismatching of spontaneous parametric down-conversion~(SPDC) process, so-called modal phase matching, in a straight waveguide fabricated on a dual-layer LNOI. The dual-layer LNOI consists of two 300~nm lithium niobates with opposite directions, which significantly enhances the spatial overlap between fundamental and high-order modes and thus enables efficient SPDC. This dual-layer waveguide generates photon pairs with pair generation rate of 41.77~GHz/mW, which exhibits excellent signal-to-noise performance with coincidence-to-accidental ratio up to 58298$\pm$1297. Moreover, we observe a heralded single-photon source with second-order autocorrelation $g_{H}^{(2)}(0)<0.2$ and heralded rate exceeding 100~kHz. Our results provide an experiment-friendly approach for efficient generation of quantum photon sources and benefit the on-chip quantum information processing based on LNOI.
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spellingShingle High-efficiency On-chip Quantum Photon Source in Modal Phase-matched Lithium Niobate Nanowaveguide
Fang, Xiao-Xu
Du, Hao-Yang
Zhang, Xiuquan
Wang, Lei
Chen, Feng
Lu, He
Quantum Physics
Optics
Thin-film lithium niobate on insulator~(LNOI) emerges as a promising platform for integrated quantum photon source, enabling scalable on-chip quantum information processing. The most popular technique to overcome the phase mismatching between interacting waves in waveguide is periodic poling, which is intrinsically sensitive to poling uniformity. Here, we report an alternative strategy to offset the phase mismatching of spontaneous parametric down-conversion~(SPDC) process, so-called modal phase matching, in a straight waveguide fabricated on a dual-layer LNOI. The dual-layer LNOI consists of two 300~nm lithium niobates with opposite directions, which significantly enhances the spatial overlap between fundamental and high-order modes and thus enables efficient SPDC. This dual-layer waveguide generates photon pairs with pair generation rate of 41.77~GHz/mW, which exhibits excellent signal-to-noise performance with coincidence-to-accidental ratio up to 58298$\pm$1297. Moreover, we observe a heralded single-photon source with second-order autocorrelation $g_{H}^{(2)}(0)<0.2$ and heralded rate exceeding 100~kHz. Our results provide an experiment-friendly approach for efficient generation of quantum photon sources and benefit the on-chip quantum information processing based on LNOI.
title High-efficiency On-chip Quantum Photon Source in Modal Phase-matched Lithium Niobate Nanowaveguide
topic Quantum Physics
Optics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11372