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International Conference on Transparent Optical Networks

On-Chip Manipulation and Detection of Single Photons in Lithium Niobate Nanophotonic Circuits

Emma Lomonte, Francesco Lenzini, Simone Ferrari, Martin A. Wolff, Carsten Schuck, Wolfram H. P. Pernice

Published Jul 1, 2020• 3 citations
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Abstract

Lithium Niobate On Insulator (LNOI) has recently emerged as a promising platform for the realization of electro-optically reconfigurable waveguides combining small footprint and ultra-low propagation loss. Integration of these components with superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs) opens up the possibility to perform on-chip manipulation and detection of quantum states of light in a physically stable and scalable architecture. Here we report recent theoretical and experimental progress towards the realization of fast electro-optic modulators compatible with cryogenic temperatures and high-performance NbTiN superconducting nanowires single-photon detectors (SNSPDs) monolithically integrated in LNOI waveguides.

DOI
10.1109/icton51198.2020.9203269

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Here, we demonstrate waveguide-integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors on thin-film lithium niobate (LiNbO3, LN). Using a 250 μm-long NbN superconducting nanowire lithographically defined on top of a 125 μm-long LN nanowaveguide, an on-chip detection efficiency of 46% is realized with simultaneous high performance in dark count rates and timing jitter. As LN possesses high χ(2) second-order nonlinear and electro-optic properties, an efficient single-photon detector on thin-film LN opens up the possibility to construct a small-scale fully integrated quantum photonic chip, which includes single-photon sources, filters, tunable quantum gates, and detectors.
We demonstrate waveguide-integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors on thin-film lithium niobate (LiNbO3, LN). Using a 250 μm-long NbN superconducting nanowire lithographically defined on top of a 125 μm-long LN nanowaveguide, an on-chip detection efficiency of 46% is realized with simultaneous high performance in dark count rates and timing jitter. As LN possesses high χ(2) second-order nonlinear and electro-optic properties, an efficient single-photon detector on thin-film LN opens up the possibility to construct a small-scale fully integrated quantum photonic chip, which includes single-photon sources, filters, tunable quantum gates, and detectors.
We demonstrate waveguide-integrated superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors on thin-film lithium niobate (LN). Using a 250 um-long NbN superconducting nanowire lithographically defined on top of a 125 um-long LN nanowaveguide, on-chip detection efficiency of 46% is realized with simultaneous high performance in dark count rate and timing jitter. As LN possesses high second-order nonlinear \c{hi}(2) and electro-optic properties, an efficient single-photon detector on thin-film LN opens up the possibility to construct small scale fully-integrated quantum photonic chip which includes single-photon sources, filters, tunable quantum gates and detectors.