Ultra-Short Pulse Biphoton Source in Lithium Niobate Nanophotonics at 2 textmu m

Kavli Affiliate: Alireza Marandi

| First 5 Authors: James Williams, Rajveer Nehra, Elina Sendonaris, Luis Ledezma, Robert M. Gray

| Summary:

Photonics offers unique capabilities for quantum information processing (QIP)
such as room-temperature operation, the scalability of nanophotonics, and
access to ultrabroad bandwidths and consequently ultrafast operation.
Ultrashort-pulse sources of quantum states in nanophotonics are an important
building block for achieving scalable ultrafast QIP, however, their
demonstrations so far have been sparse. Here, we demonstrate a femtosecond
biphoton source in dispersion-engineered periodically poled lithium niobate
nanophotonics. We measure 17 THz of bandwidth for the source centered at 2.09
textmu m, corresponding to a few optical cycles, with a brightness of 8.8
GHz/mW. Our results open new paths towards realization of ultrafast
nanophotonic QIP.

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