Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Demonstration of Squeezing on chip

Avik Dutt, Kevin J. Luke, Sasikanth Manipatruni, Alexander L. Gaeta, P. Nussenzveig, Michal F. Lipson

Published Jan 1, 2013• 1 citation

Abstract

We report the first observation of squeezing in an on chip integrated platform based on SiN Optical parametric oscillator ring resonator. We demonstrate 1.7 dB squeezing in the intensity difference between the signal and idler beams.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2013.qth5b.1

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