We present design principles for ultrashort-pulse, type-0 phase-matched optical parametric amplifiers to generate and measure spectrally pure degenerate squeezed light. We consider a fundamental signal (second-harmonic) mode at 2090 (1045) nm and show that our proposed design achieves a Schmidt number of K≈1.02 with squeezing levels greater than 15 dB on a single temporal mode spanning over 5 THz in bandwidth with cm-scale devices on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) on insulator platform. Our work opens up promising avenues for large-scale circuits for ultrafast quantum information processing and quantum sensing applications on the rapidly advancing TFLN platform with already demonstrated linear components and photodetection capabilities.
@article{arxiv.2412.17708,
title = {Ultrashort-pulse-pumped, single-mode type-0 squeezers in lithium niobate nanophotonics},
author = {Martin Houde and Liam Beaudoin and Robert Kwolek and Kazuki Hirota and Rajveer Nehra and Nicolás Quesada},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.17708},
year = {2025}
}