Advanced Photonics, Volume. 3, Issue 5, 055001(2021)

Enhanced generation of nondegenerate photon pairs in nonlinear metasurfaces

Matthew Parry1,2、*, Andrea Mazzanti1,3, Alexander Poddubny1,4,5, Giuseppe Della Valle3,6, Dragomir N. Neshev1,2, and Andrey A. Sukhorukov1,2、*
Author Affiliations
  • 1Australia National University, Research School of Physics, Canberra, Australia
  • 2ARC Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems, Canberra, Australia
  • 3Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Fisica, Milan, Italy
  • 4ITMO University, Department of Physics, Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • 5Ioffe Institute, Saint Petersburg, Russia
  • 6Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Istituto di Fotonica e Nanotecnologie, Milan, Italy
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    The MS and its modes. (a) Diagram of transverse phase matching. (b) MS design and the coordinate axes: θ is the polar and ϕ the azimuthal angle. (c) BIC wavelengths versus the gap between the two holes. (d) The dispersion for two quasi-BICs: (α) lower and (β) upper surfaces. Dotted white lines: two-BIC phase matching for λp=774.22 nm. (e), (f) Fields |E| of the two BICs.
    SPDC at a single BIC. (a) Solid line: the generation rate for a horizontally polarized, normally incident pump, |HH⟩ signal and idler state, ϕ=79 deg and θs=0.2 deg for the signal, opposite angle for the idler. Dashed line: the product of the maximum intensity inside the resonator of the signal and idler fields. (b) Solid line: generation rate versus the pump wavelength. The red dot marks the wavelength used in (d) and Fig. 4. Dashed: ky at phase matching when kx=0. (c), (d) Generation rate in k-space for (c) phase matching at the Γ point and (d) for λp=774.43 nm. White dashed line: phase matching condition; black dashed line: the path of constant θs in Fig. 4(a).
    Nondegenerate signal and idler at different BICs. (a) Transverse phase matching condition according to Eq. (2). The dotted white line corresponds to λp=774.22 nm. (b) Solid line: generation rate versus the pump wavelength. The red circle is the integration of (d). Dashed line: ky at transverse phase matching when kx=0. (c), (d) Generation rate in k-space at (c) phase matching at the Γ point (λp=774.2165 nm) and (d) λp=774.22 nm. White dashed line: phase matching condition; black dashed line: the path of constant θs in Fig. 4(c).
    Entanglement of the signal and idler photons generated from: (a), (b) a single BIC with λp=774.43 nm; (c), (d) two different BICs with λp=774.2165 nm. (a), (c) Schmidt number versus the photon angle. (b) Schmidt decomposition of the wavefunction plotted on the Poincaré sphere for the red dot in (a). (d) Schmidt number versus the pump polarization and photon angle.
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    Matthew Parry, Andrea Mazzanti, Alexander Poddubny, Giuseppe Della Valle, Dragomir N. Neshev, Andrey A. Sukhorukov. Enhanced generation of nondegenerate photon pairs in nonlinear metasurfaces[J]. Advanced Photonics, 2021, 3(5): 055001

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    Category: Letters

    Received: Jun. 25, 2021

    Accepted: Aug. 9, 2021

    Published Online: Sep. 7, 2021

    The Author Email: Parry Matthew (Matthew.Parry@anu.edu.au), Sukhorukov Andrey A. (Andrey.Sukhorukov@anu.edu.au)

    DOI:10.1117/1.AP.3.5.055001

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