Picosecond pulsed squeezing in thin-film lithium niobate strip-loaded waveguides at telecommunication wavelengths

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Peace, Daniel
Zappacosta, Alexander
Cernansky, Robert
Haylock, Ben
Boes, Andreas
Mitchell, Arnan
Lobino, Mirko
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2022
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Achieving a high level of pulsed squeezing, in a platform which offers integration and stability, is a key requirement for continuous-variable quantum information processing. Typically highly squeezed states are achieved with narrow band optical cavities and bulk crystals, limiting scalability. Using single-pass parametric down conversion in an integrated optical device, we demonstrate quadrature squeezing of picosecond pulses in a thin-film lithium niobate strip-loaded waveguide. For on-chip peak powers of less than 0.3 W, we measure up to −0.33 ± 0.07 dB of squeezing with an inferred on-chip value of −1.7 ± 0.4 dB. This work highlights the potential of the strip-loaded waveguide platform for broadband squeezing applications and the development of photonic quantum technologies.

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Journal of Physics: Photonics

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4

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3

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© 2022 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd. Original Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI.

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Photonics, optoelectronics and optical communications

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Peace, D; Zappacosta, A; Cernansky, R; Haylock, B; Boes, A; Mitchell, A; Lobino, M, Picosecond pulsed squeezing in thin-film lithium niobate strip-loaded waveguides at telecommunication wavelengths, Journal of Physics: Photonics, 2022, 4 (3), pp. 035002

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