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Enhanced generation of non-degenerate photon-pairs in nonlinear metasurfaces

Optics 2021-09-03 v2 Quantum Physics

Abstract

We reveal a novel regime of photon-pair generation driven by the interplay of multiple bound states in the continuum resonances in nonlinear metasurfaces. This non-degenerate photon-pair generation is derived from the hyperbolic topology of the transverse phase-matching and can enable orders-of-magnitude enhancement of the photon rate and spectral brightness, as compared to the degenerate regime. We show that the entanglement of the photon-pairs can be tuned by varying the pump polarization, which can underpin future advances and applications of ultra-compact quantum light sources.

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@article{arxiv.2104.07299,
  title  = {Enhanced generation of non-degenerate photon-pairs in nonlinear metasurfaces},
  author = {Matthew Parry and Andrea Mazzanti and Alexander Poddubny and Giuseppe Della Valle and Dragomir N. Neshev and Andrey A. Sukhorukov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.07299},
  year   = {2021}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures