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We study a class of nonlinear waveguide arrays where the waveguides are endowed with quadratic non- linearity and are coupled through the evanescent overlap of the guided modes. We study both the stimulated and spontaneous process in the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Amit Rai , Dimitris G. Angelakis

Novel platforms interfacing trapped cold atoms and guided light in nanoscale waveguides are a promising route to achieve a regime of strong coupling between light and atoms in single pass, with applications to quantum non-linear optics and…

In this work, we develop a design methodology to generate spectrally pure photon pairs in asymmetric heterogeneously coupled waveguides by spontaneous parametric down-conversion. Mode coupling in a system of waveguides is used to directly…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-30 Xiangyan Ding , Jing Ma , Liying Tan , Amr S. Helmy , Dongpeng Kang

The demand for nonlinear effects within a silicon platform to support photonic circuits requiring phase-only modulation, frequency doubling, and/or difference frequency generation, is becoming increasingly clear. However, the symmetry of…

Optics · Physics 2017-04-05 E. Timurdogan , Christopher V. Poulton , M. R. Watts

Practical quantum networks require low-loss and noise-resilient optical interconnects as well as non-Gaussian resources for entanglement distillation and distributed quantum computation. The latter could be provided by superconducting…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-09-23 G. Arnold , M. Wulf , S. Barzanjeh , E. S. Redchenko , A. Rueda , W. J. Hease , F. Hassani , J. M. Fink

Topological quantum optics, an emerging area of study, holds the potential to bring about substantial enhancements for integrated quantum devices. Here we propose integrated topological quantum devices performing various functions including…

Optics · Physics 2024-01-15 Zhen Jiang , Bo Ji , Yanghe Chen , Chun Jiang , Guangqiang He

Generating and interfering non-classical states of light is fundamental to optical quantum information science and technology. Quantum photonic integrated circuits provide one pathway towards scalability by combining nonlinear sources of…

Thin-film lithium niobate on insulator~(LNOI) emerges as a promising platform for integrated quantum photon source, enabling scalable on-chip quantum information processing. The most popular technique to overcome the phase mismatching…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-12-17 Xiao-Xu Fang , Hao-Yang Du , Xiuquan Zhang , Lei Wang , Feng Chen , He Lu

Here we show photon pair generation from ring resonator and waveguide structures in a hybrid silicon-BTO on insulator platform with a pulsed pump. Our analysis of single photon and coincidence generation rates show that Spontaneous…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-03-22 Daniel Marchant , Imad Faruque , Jorge Barreto

On-chip realization of complex photonic functionalities is essential for further progress in planar integrated nanophotonics, especially when involving nonclassical light sources such as quantum emitters (QEs). Hybrid plasmonic nanocircuits…

Optics · Physics 2022-01-26 Y. H. Kan , Shailesh Kumar , Fei Ding , C. Y. Zhao , Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi

It has recently been shown that silicon nanophotonic waveguides can be used to construct all of the components of a photonic data transmission system on a single chip. These components can be integrated together with CMOS electronics to…

Integrated Silicon photonics has played an important role in advancing the applications of quantum information and quantum science. However, due to different material properties, it is challenging to integrate all components with excellent…

Controlling and swapping quantum information in a quantum coherent way between the microwave and optical regimes is essential for building long-range superconducting quantum networks but extremely challenging. We propose a hybrid quantum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-05-23 Keyu Xia , Fedor Jelezko , Jason Twamley

The hybrid photon-atom integrated circuits, which include photonic microcavities and trapped single neutral atom in their evanescent field, are of great potential for quantum information processing. In this platform, the atoms provide the…

Photonics has emerged as one of the leading platforms for the implementation of real-world-applicable quantum technologies, enabling secure communication, enhanced sensing capabilities, as well as resolving previously intractable…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-07-18 Tristan Kuttner , Alessandra Sabatti , Jost Kellner , Rachel Grange , Robert J. Chapman

High-performance photonic chips provide a powerful platform for analog computing, enabling the simulation of high-dimensional physical systems using low-dimensional devices with additional synthetic dimensions. The realization of…

The implementation of quantum routers is an important and desired task in quantum information science, since quantum routers are important components of quantum networks. Here, we propose a scheme for implementing single-photon routers in a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-04-30 Shi-Yu Liu , Lin-Lin Jiang , Hai Zhu , Jie-Qiao Liao , Jin-Feng Huang

This tutorial provides a joint theoretical and experimental overview of heterodyne wave mixing spectroscopy, focusing mainly on four-wave mixing (FWM). This powerful and versatile time-resolved nonlinear optical spectroscopy technique…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-01-12 Daniel Groll , Thilo Hahn , Paweł Machnikowski , Tilmann Kuhn , Jacek Kasprzak , Daniel Wigger

Four-wave mixing has extensively been investigated for various applications such as communications, spectroscopy, metrology, quantum computing and bio-imaging. However, there is a clear desire to implement these functionalities in a small…

Realizing an on-chip reconfigurable source of path-entangled photons is of critical importance for the advancement of quantum information processing and networking. Achieving this goal has proven challenging to date. We present an on-chip…

Optics · Physics 2017-05-23 Raja Ahmad , Ayman F. Abouraddy