Ultrashort-pulse-pumped, single-mode type-0 squeezers in lithium niobate nanophotonics

TL;DR

This paper introduces a design for ultrashort-pulse, single-mode type-0 parametric amplifiers in lithium niobate nanophotonics that produce highly pure, broadband squeezed light suitable for quantum information and sensing.

Contribution

It proposes a novel design achieving near-ideal spectral purity and high squeezing levels in a compact, integrated lithium niobate device for ultrafast quantum applications.

Findings

Schmidt number of approximately 1.02 indicating near-perfect spectral purity

Squeezing levels exceeding 15 dB in a broad 5 THz bandwidth

Device footprint is on the centimeter scale, suitable for integrated quantum circuits

Abstract

We present design principles for ultrashort-pulse, type-0 phase-matched optical parametric amplifiers to generate and measure spectrally pure degenerate squeezed light. We consider a fundamental signal (second-harmonic) mode at 2090 (1045) nm and show that our proposed design achieves a Schmidt number of $K \approx 1.02$ with squeezing levels greater than 15 dB on a single temporal mode spanning over $5$ THz in bandwidth with cm-scale devices on thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) on insulator platform. Our work opens up promising avenues for large-scale circuits for ultrafast quantum information processing and quantum sensing applications on the rapidly advancing TFLN platform with already demonstrated linear components and photodetection capabilities.