Micro-combs: A novel generation of optical sources

A Pasquazi, M Peccianti, L Razzari, DJ Moss, S Coen… - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
The quest towards the integration of ultra-fast, high-precision optical clocks is reflected in the
large number of high-impact papers on the topic published in the last few years. This interest …

Kerr optical frequency combs: theory, applications and perspectives

YK Chembo - Nanophotonics, 2016 - degruyter.com
The optical frequency comb technology is one of the most important breakthrough in
photonics in recent years. This concept has revolutionized the science of ultra-stable …

Near-degenerate quadrature-squeezed vacuum generation on a silicon-nitride chip

Y Zhao, Y Okawachi, JK Jang, X Ji, M Lipson… - Physical Review Letters, 2020 - APS
Squeezed states are a primary resource for continuous-variable (CV) quantum information
processing. To implement CV protocols in a scalable and robust way, it is desirable to …

Broadband quadrature-squeezed vacuum and nonclassical photon number correlations from a nanophotonic device

VD Vaidya, B Morrison, LG Helt, R Shahrokshahi… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
We report demonstrations of both quadrature-squeezed vacuum and photon number
difference squeezing generated in an integrated nanophotonic device. Squeezed light is …

Truly unentangled photon pairs without spectral filtering

Z Vernon, M Menotti, CC Tison, JA Steidle, ML Fanto… - Optics letters, 2017 - opg.optica.org
We demonstrate that an integrated silicon microring resonator is capable of efficiently
producing photon pairs that are completely unentangled; such pairs are a key component of …

Beyond photon pairs—nonlinear quantum photonics in the high-gain regime: a tutorial

N Quesada, LG Helt, M Menotti, M Liscidini… - Advances in Optics and …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Integrated optical devices will play a central role in the future development of nonlinear
quantum photonics. Here we consider the generation of nonclassical states of light within …

Quantum dynamics of Kerr optical frequency combs below and above threshold: Spontaneous four-wave mixing, entanglement, and squeezed states of light

YK Chembo - Physical Review A, 2016 - APS
The dynamical behavior of Kerr optical frequency combs is very well understood today from
the perspective of the semiclassical approximation. These combs are obtained by pumping …

[HTML][HTML] Scattering into one-dimensional waveguides from a coherently-driven quantum-optical system

KA Fischer, R Trivedi, V Ramasesh, I Siddiqi… - Quantum, 2018 - quantum-journal.org
We develop a new computational tool and framework for characterizing the scattering of
photons by energy-nonconserving Hamiltonians into unidirectional (chiral) waveguides, for …

On-chip quantum interference from a single silicon ring-resonator source

SF Preble, ML Fanto, JA Steidle, CC Tison… - Physical Review …, 2015 - APS
Here we demonstrate quantum interference of photons on a silicon chip produced from a
single-ring-resonator photon source. The source is seamlessly integrated with a Mach …

On-chip quantum interference with heralded photons from two independent micro-ring resonator sources in silicon photonics

II Faruque, GF Sinclair, D Bonneau, JG Rarity… - Optics express, 2018 - opg.optica.org
High visibility on-chip quantum interference among indistinguishable single-photons from
multiples sources is a key prerequisite for integrated linear optical quantum computing …