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arXiv:2605.10731

Squeezing Enhancement Through Resonant Interference in Multi-ring Resonators

M. Sloan, J. E. Sipe

quant-phphysics.opticsSubmitted May 11, 2026• Announced May 12, 2026• 0 citations

Abstract

We develop a non-perturbative description of squeezed light generation in an arbitrary lossy structure consisting of multiple coupled microring resonators. This is applied to two ring photonic molecules where the interference of the fields in the coupled rings leads to a modification in the resonance spectrum near a shared resonance. Considering a dual-pump degenerate squeezing scheme under a five resonance approximation, we investigate two methods to suppress parasitic four-wave mixing contributions and compensate for group velocity dispersion within a primary resonator through hybridization effects with a second auxiliary resonator. In the former case, this comes from an effective splitting of the unwanted resonances supporting parasitic four-wave mixing interactions that add thermal noise to the desired degenerate squeezed state. For sufficiently strong coupling between the resonators, we demonstrate near complete suppression of such parasitic processes, resulting in near unit fidelities with the corresponding output state that would arise were the parasitic interactions neglected. In the latter case, the hybridization effectively shifts a pump resonance, realigning the desired dual-pump four-wave mixing process and leading to a significant enhancement of the signal generation and output squeezing.

Comments: 27 pages, 15 figures

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