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In this paper we study photon pairs generated in a nonlinear cavity, composed of a nonlinear crystal surrounded by mirrors, by the process of spontaneous parametric downconversion. We analyze two different regimes: singly-resonant cavities…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2010-06-02 Yasser Jeronimo-Moreno , Saul Rodriguez-Benavides , Alfred B. U'Ren

We propose a method for directly producing radially and azimuthally polarized photon pairs through spontaneous parametric downconversion (SPDC). This method constitutes a novel geometry for SPDC, in which a radially polarized Bessel-Gauss…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-10-14 Rebecca Y. Saaltink , Lambert Giner , Robert W. Boyd , Ebrahim Karimi , Jeff S. Lundeen

We predict that all-optically reconfigurable generation of photon pairs with tailored spatial entanglement can be realized via spontaneous parametric down-conversion in integrated nonlinear coupled waveguides. The required elements of the…

Harnessing topological effects offers a promising route to protect quantum states of light from imperfections, potentially enabling more robust platforms for quantum information processing. This capability is particularly relevant for…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-29 A. Zecchetto , J. -R. Coudevylle , M. Morassi , A. Lemaître , M. I. Amanti , S. Ducci , F. Baboux

In this paper, we study the possible parametric down conversion processes in a periodically poled customized Lithium Niobate (LiNbO3) ridge waveguide. Our analysis of spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC), first, with a Gaussian…

Optics · Physics 2019-06-26 Ramesh Kumar , Joyee Ghosh

Spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) is the most widely used process for generating entangled photon pairs. In SPDC, a pump photon interacts with a nonlinear optical crystal and splits into two entangled photons called the signal…

Enhancing and controlling light-matter interactions is crucial in nanotechnology and material science, propelling research on green energy, laser technology, and quantum cryptography. Central to enhanced light-matter coupling are two…

We develop and experimentally verify a theory of Type-II spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) in media with inhomogeneous distributions of second-order nonlinearity. As a special case, we explore interference effects from SPDC…

Third-order parametric down-conversion (TOPDC) describes a class of nonlinear interactions in which a pump photon is converted into a photon triplet. This process can occur spontaneously, or it can be stimulated by seeding fields. In the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-04-13 Milica Banic , Marco Liscidini , J. E. Sipe

We report, for the first time, the generation of entangled photon pairs via type-0 spontaneous parametric down conversion in an ultra-thin wafer of lithium niobate in which momentum between the pump photon and daughter photons is not…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-01-08 C. Okoth , A Cavanna , T. Santiago-Cruz , M. V. Chekhova

Tunable biphoton quantum entanglement generated from nonlinear processes is highly desirable for cutting-edge quantum technologies, yet its tunability is substantially constrained by the symmetry of material nonlinear tensors. Here, we…

Enhancing nonlinear optical effects is critical to improving the performance of many functional devices for nonlinear and quantum optical applications. Here we study the possibility of bending a waveguide to enhance the photon pair…

Optics · Physics 2024-07-16 Maria Paszkiewicz-Idzik , Carsten Rockstuhl

For advanced quantum information technology, sources of photon pairs in quantum mechanically factorable states are of great importance for realizing high-fidelity photon-photon quantum gate operations. Here we experimentally demonstrate a…

Metasurfaces are a key photonic platform to manipulate classical light using sub-wavelength structures with designer optical response. Static metasurfaces have recently entered the realm of quantum photonics, showing their ability to tailor…

Optics · Physics 2021-07-28 Wilton J. M. Kort-Kamp , Abul K. Azad , Diego A. R. Dalvit

Quantum photonic technologies rely on the ability to generate, manipulate, and interfere indistinguishable single photons on a scalable platform. Among the various approaches, spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) remains one of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-03-03 Jost Kellner , Alessandra Sabatti , Tristan Kuttner , Robert J. Chapman , Rachel Grange

We demonstrate the tunable quantum beat of single photons through the co-development of core nonlinear nanophotonic technologies for frequency-domain manipulation of quantum states in a common physical platform. Spontaneous four-wave mixing…

Microwave-optical quantum transduction can be achieved via quantum teleportation using microwave-optical photon Bell pairs. The standard spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) has to trade off between generation fidelity and…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-05-05 Fangxin Li , Ming Yuan , Zhaoyou Wang , Changchun Zhong , Liang Jiang

Broadband quantum light is a vital resource for quantum metrology and spectroscopy applications such as quantum optical coherence tomography or entangled two photon absorption. For entangled two photon absorption in particular, very high…

We propose and design a high-brightness, ultra-compact electrically pumped GaSb-based laser source of entangled photons generated by mode-matched intracavity parametric down-conversion of lasing modes. To describe the nonlinear mixing in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-23 Mikhail Tokman , Yongrui Wang , Qianfan Chen , Leon Shterengas , Alexey Belyanin

Pairs of entangled photons are crucial for photonic quantum technologies. The demand for integrability and multi-functionality suggests 'flat' platforms - ultrathin layers and metasurfaces - as sources of photon pairs. With the success in…

Optics · Physics 2026-02-02 Changjin Son , Maria Chekhova