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1 September 2021 Enhanced generation of nondegenerate photon pairs in nonlinear metasurfaces
Matthew Parry, Andrea Mazzanti, Alexander N. Poddubny, Giuseppe Della Valle, Dragomir N. Neshev, Andrey A. Sukhorukov
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Abstract

We predict theoretically a regime of photon-pair generation driven by the interplay of multiple bound states in the continuum resonances in nonlinear metasurfaces. This nondegenerate photon-pair generation is derived from the hyperbolic topology of the transverse phase matching and can enable orders-of-magnitude enhancement of the photon rate and spectral brightness, as compared to the degenerate regime. We show through comprehensive simulations that the entanglement of the photon pairs can be tuned by varying the pump polarization, which can underpin future advances and applications of ultracompact quantum light sources.

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Matthew Parry, Andrea Mazzanti, Alexander N. Poddubny, Giuseppe Della Valle, Dragomir N. Neshev, and Andrey A. Sukhorukov "Enhanced generation of nondegenerate photon pairs in nonlinear metasurfaces," Advanced Photonics 3(5), 055001 (1 September 2021). https://doi.org/10.1117/1.AP.3.5.055001
Received: 25 June 2021; Accepted: 9 August 2021; Published: 1 September 2021
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KEYWORDS
Phase matching

Polarization

Dispersion

Nonlinear optics

Photon polarization

Resonators

Solids

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