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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Single-photon frequency shifting using coupled microring resonators on thin-film lithium niobate

Matthew Yeh, C. J. Xin, Yaowen Hu, Soumya Shankar Ghosh, Andrew D. Beyer, Emma E. Wollman, Matthew D. Shaw, Neil E. Sinclair, Evelyn L. Hu, Di Zhu, Marko Lončar

Published Jan 1, 2022• 1 citation
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Abstract

We frequency shift single photons by 18.2 GHz using coupled thin-film lithium niobate microring resonators controlled by a single-tone microwave signal, and characterize the indistinguishability of the shifted and unshifted photons using Hong-Ou-Mandel interference. A visibility of 74 ± 0.9% is achieved.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2022.fth5c.4

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