[HTML][HTML] Quantum optics of soliton microcombs

MA Guidry, DM Lukin, KY Yang, R Trivedi… - Nature Photonics, 2022 - nature.com
Soliton microcombs—phase-locked microcavity frequency combs—have become the
foundation of several classical technologies in integrated photonics, including spectroscopy …

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 …

On-chip χ(2) microring optical parametric oscillator

AW Bruch, X Liu, JB Surya, CL Zou, HX Tang - Optica, 2019 - opg.optica.org
Optical parametric oscillators (OPOs) have been widely used for decades as tunable, narrow-
linewidth, and coherent light sources for reaching long wavelengths and are attractive for …

Multimode squeezing in soliton crystal microcombs

MA Guidry, DM Lukin, KY Yang, J Vučković - Optica, 2023 - opg.optica.org
Soliton microcombs are self-organized pulses of light sustained in driven Kerr
microresonators, intensively studied for applications in integrated photonic technologies and …

Controlled-phase gate using dynamically coupled cavities and optical nonlinearities

M Heuck, K Jacobs, DR Englund - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
We show that relatively simple integrated photonic circuits have the potential to realize a
high fidelity deterministic controlled-phase gate between photonic qubits using bulk optical …

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 …

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 …

Simulating realistic non-Gaussian state preparation

N Quesada, LG Helt, J Izaac, JM Arrazola… - Physical Review A, 2019 - APS
We consider conditional photonic non-Gaussian state preparation using multimode
Gaussian states and photon-number-resolving detectors in the presence of photon loss …

Exceptional photon blockade: Engineering photon blockade with chiral exceptional points

R Huang, ŞK Özdemir, JQ Liao… - Laser & Photonics …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Non‐hermitian spectral degeneracies, known as exceptional points (EPs), feature the
simultaneous coalescence of both eigenvalues and the associated eigenstates of a system …

Strong Nonlinear Coupling in a Ring Resonator

S Ramelow, A Farsi, Z Vernon, S Clemmen, X Ji… - Physical review …, 2019 - APS
We demonstrate that nondegenerate four-wave mixing in a Si 3 N 4 microring resonator can
result in a nonlinear coupling rate between two optical fields exceeding their energy …