Methods and apparatus of entangled photon generation using four-wave mixing

Camacho, Ryan

Methods and apparatus of entangled photon generation using four-wave mixing

Patent · Tue Feb 23 04:00:00 EST 2016

OSTI ID:1239674

Camacho, Ryan

A non-linear optical device is provided. The device comprises an optical disk or ring microresonator fabricated from a material that exhibits an optical nonlinearity able to produce degenerate four-wave mixing (FWM) in response to a pump beam having a pump frequency in a specified effective range. The microresonator is conformed to exhibit an angular group velocity minimum at a pump frequency within the specified effective range such that there is zero angular group velocity dispersion at the pump frequency. We refer to such a pump frequency as the "zero dispersion frequency". In embodiments, excitation of the resonator by a pump beam of sufficient intensity at the zero-dispersion frequency causes the resonator to emit a frequency comb of entangled photon pairs wherein the respective frequencies in each pair are symmetrically placed about the zero-dispersion frequency.

View Patent

Research Organization:: Sandia National Laboratories (SNL-CA), Livermore, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

DOE Contract Number:: AC04-94AL85000

Assignee:: Sandia Corporation (Albuquerque, NM)

Patent Number(s):: 9,268,195

Application Number:: 14/102,311

OSTI ID:: 1239674

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

References (18)

CMOS-compatible multiple-wavelength oscillator for on-chip optical interconnects Levy, Jacob S.; Gondarenko, Alexander; Foster, Mark A. Nature Photonics, Vol. 4, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.259	journal	December 2009
CMOS-compatible integrated optical hyper-parametric oscillator Razzari, L.; Duchesne, D.; Ferrera, M. Nature Photonics, Vol. 4, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2009.236	journal	December 2009
Chip-based frequency combs with sub-100 GHz repetition rates Johnson, Adrea R.; Okawachi, Yoshitomo; Levy, Jacob S. Optics Letters, Vol. 37, Issue 5 https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.37.000875	journal	January 2012
Wavelength conversion in GaAs micro-ring resonators Absil, P. P.; Hryniewicz, J. V.; Little, B. E. Optics Letters, Vol. 25, Issue 8 https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.25.000554	journal	January 2000
Optical frequency comb generation from a monolithic microresonator Del’Haye, P.; Schliesser, A.; Arcizet, O. Nature, Vol. 450, Issue 7173 https://doi.org/10.1038/nature06401	journal	December 2007
Entangled photon generation using four-wave mixing in azimuthally symmetric microresonators Camacho, Ryan M. Optics Express, Vol. 20, Issue 20 https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.20.021977	journal	January 2012
Interspecimen Comparison of the Refractive Index of Fused Silica*,† Malitson, I. H. Journal of the Optical Society of America, Vol. 55, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1364/JOSA.55.001205	journal	January 1965
Modal expansion approach to optical-frequency-comb generation with monolithic whispering-gallery-mode resonators Chembo, Yanne K.; Yu, Nan Physical Review A, Vol. 82, Issue 3 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevA.82.033801	journal	September 2010
Spectrum and Dynamics of Optical Frequency Combs Generated with Monolithic Whispering Gallery Mode Resonators Chembo, Yanne K.; Strekalov, Dmitry V.; Yu, Nan Physical Review Letters, Vol. 104, Issue 10 https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.104.103902	journal	March 2010
Microresonator-Based Optical Frequency Combs Kippenberg, T. J.; Holzwarth, R.; Diddams, S. A. Science, Vol. 332, Issue 6029 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1193968	journal	April 2011
Silicon oxynitride; a material for GRIN optics Bååk, Tryggve Applied Optics, Vol. 21, Issue 6 https://doi.org/10.1364/AO.21.001069	journal	January 1982
Spontaneous four-wave mixing in microring resonators Helt, L. G.; Yang, Zhenshan; Liscidini, Marco Optics Letters, Vol. 35, Issue 18 https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.35.003006	journal	January 2010
On-chip CMOS-compatible all-optical integrator Ferrera, M.; Park, Y.; Razzari, L. Nature Communications, Vol. 1, Issue 1 https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms1028	journal	June 2010
Spectral line-by-line pulse shaping of on-chip microresonator frequency combs Ferdous, Fahmida; Miao, Houxun; Leaird, Daniel E. Nature Photonics, Vol. 5, Issue 12 https://doi.org/10.1038/nphoton.2011.255	journal	October 2011
Continuous wave photon pair generation in silicon-on-insulator waveguides and ring resonators Clemmen, S.; Huy, K. Phan; Bogaerts, W. Optics Express, Vol. 17, Issue 19 https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.17.016558	journal	January 2009
Analytical treatment of spectral properties and signal–idler intensity correlations for a double-resonant optical parametric oscillator far below threshold Scholz, Matthias; Koch, Lars; Benson, Oliver Optics Communications, Vol. 282, Issue 17, p. 3518-3523 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2009.05.056	journal	September 2009
Frequency-bin entangled comb of photon pairs from a Silicon-on-Insulator micro-resonator Chen, Jun; Levine, Zachary H.; Fan, Jingyun Optics Express, Vol. 19, Issue 2 https://doi.org/10.1364/OE.19.001470	journal	January 2011
Entangled photon generation in microresonators via accidental degeneracies Camacho, Ryan M. Frontiers in Optics 2012/Laser Science XXVIII https://doi.org/10.1364/LS.2012.LW1J.4	conference	January 2012

Similar Records

Four-wave mixing in three-level systems: Interference and entanglement

Journal Article · Sun Jul 15 00:00:00 EDT 2007 · Physical Review. A · OSTI ID:21011299

Reconfigurable optical-to-optical frequency conversion method and apparatus

Patent · Tue Apr 18 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · OSTI ID:1351822

Related Subjects

47 OTHER INSTRUMENTATION
71 CLASSICAL AND QUANTUM MECHANICS
GENERAL PHYSICS

Methods and apparatus of entangled photon generation using four-wave mixing

Citation Formats

References (18)

Similar Records

Related Subjects