The University of Arizona

The University of New Mexico

Bo-Han Wu

Zheshen Zhang

Shuai Liu

Rafael Alexander

A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) includes a first microresonator that generates a two-mode squeezed vacuum using spontaneous four-wave mixing. Specifically, the first microresonator uses a nonlinear optical medium to convert two pump photons into a pair of entangled signal and idler photons. Due to imperfect conversion efficiency, some of the pump light may co-propagate with the signal light and idler light. To remove this 'unconverted' pump light, the PIC includes a second microresonator that is tuned to resonate with only the pump light. The second microresonator is located after the first microresonator and couples the unconverted pump light into a waveguide that guide the light off the PIC. Thus, the second microresonator acts as a notch filter. Integrating this pump filter onto the PIC adds negligibly to the path length of the squeezed light, and therefore saves the propagation losses incurred when using a much larger off-chip filter.

Photonic integrated circuit with squeezed and entangled light generation, and associated methods

A scalable platform for generating time-frequency-multiplexed cluster states and utilizing them for large-scale quantum computing. Kerr microcombs and continuous-variable (CV) quantum information are used to formulate a one-way quantum computing architecture that can accommodate hundreds of simultaneously addressable entangled optical modes multiplexed in the frequency domain and an unlimited number of sequentially addressable entangled optical modes in time domain. One-dimensional, two-dimensional, and three-dimensional CV cluster states can be deterministically produced using robust integrated photonic circuit technology is leveraged that is readily available and experimentally viable.

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Bo-Han Wu