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 …

[HTML][HTML] Novel photonic applications of silicon carbide

H Ou, X Shi, Y Lu, M Kollmuss, J Steiner, V Tabouret… - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Silicon carbide (SiC) is emerging rapidly in novel photonic applications thanks to its unique
photonic properties facilitated by the advances of nanotechnologies such as nanofabrication …

[HTML][HTML] Post-2000 nonlinear optical materials and measurements: data tables and best practices

N Vermeulen, D Espinosa, A Ball… - Journal of Physics …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
In its 60 years of existence, the field of nonlinear optics has gained momentum especially
over the past two decades thanks to major breakthroughs in material science and …

[HTML][HTML] High-performance quantum entanglement generation via cascaded second-order nonlinear processes

Z Zhang, C Yuan, S Shen, H Yu, R Zhang… - npj Quantum …, 2021 - nature.com
In this paper, we demonstrate the generation of high-performance entangled photon-pairs in
different degrees of freedom from a single piece of fiber pigtailed periodically poled LiNbO3 …

[HTML][HTML] An introduction to nonlinear integrated photonics: structures and devices

L Sirleto, GC Righini - Micromachines, 2023 - mdpi.com
The combination of integrated optics technologies with nonlinear photonics, which has led to
growth of nonlinear integrated photonics, has also opened the way to groundbreaking new …

[HTML][HTML] Polarization and spatial mode dependent four-wave mixing in a 4H-silicon carbide microring resonator

X Shi, W Fan, Y Lu, AK Hansen, M Chi, A Yi, X Ou… - APL Photonics, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We report four-wave mixing with different polarization and spatial modes in a single 4H-
silicon carbide photonic device. Our device shows great potential to perform high …

Efficient mode converters and filters using asymmetrical directional couplers with subwavelength gratings

X Chen, X Shi, P Qiu, Z Dai, Y Yu, X Song, H Zhang… - Optics Letters, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Mode-division multiplexing (MDM) is a promising solution to improve data transmission
capacity for future optical interconnect networks. Mode converters and mode filters play a …

[HTML][HTML] Massive-mode polarization entangled biphoton frequency comb

T Yamazaki, R Ikuta, T Kobayashi, S Miki, F China… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
A frequency-multiplexed entangled photon pair and a high-dimensional hyperentangled
photon pair are useful to realize a high-capacity quantum communication. A biphoton …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in short and mid-infrared single-photon generation: a review

A Elefante, S Dello Russo, F Sgobba… - Optics, 2023 - mdpi.com
The generation of single photons in the mid-infrared spectral region is attracting the interest
of scientific and technological research, motivated by the potential improvements that many …

High-performance polarization-independent beam splitters and MZI in silicon carbide integrated platforms for single-photon manipulation

X Shi, Y Lu, N Peng, K Rottwitt, H Ou - Journal of Lightwave …, 2022 - opg.optica.org
Siliconcarbide (SiC), having various intrinsic color centers, is a highly promising optical
material for making monolithic quantum integrated photonic circuits, by combining the single …