Broadband Entangled-Photon Pair Generation with Integrated Photonics: Guidelines and A Materials Comparison
Abstract
Correlated photon-pair sources are key components for quantum computing, networking, and sensing applications. Integrated photonics has enabled chip-scale sources using nonlinear processes, producing high-rate entanglement with sub-100 microwatt power at telecom wavelengths. Many quantum systems operate in the visible or near-infrared ranges, necessitating broadband visible-telecom entangled-pair sources for connecting remote systems via entanglement swapping and teleportation. This study evaluates broadband entanglement generation through spontaneous four-wave mixing in various nonlinear integrated photonic materials, including silicon nitride, lithium niobate, aluminum gallium arsenide, indium gallium phosphide, and gallium nitride. We demonstrate how geometric dispersion engineering facilitates phase-matching for each platform and reveals unexpected results, such as robust designs to fabrication variations and a Type-1 cross-polarized phase-matching condition for III-V materials that expands the operational bandwidth. With experimentally attainable parameters, integrated photonic microresonators with optimized designs can achieve pair generation rates greater than ~1 THz/mW.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2407.04792,
title = {Broadband Entangled-Photon Pair Generation with Integrated Photonics: Guidelines and A Materials Comparison},
author = {Liao Duan and Trevor J. Steiner and Paolo Pintus and Lillian Thiel and Joshua E. Castro and John E. Bowers and Galan Moody},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.04792},
year = {2024}
}