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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

A Nanophotonic Broadband Quantum Optical Frequency Comb

Usman A. Javid, Jingwei Ling, Raymond Lopez‐Rios, Yang He, Qiang Lin

Published Jan 1, 2022• 1 citation
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Abstract

We demonstrate generation of a broadband quantum optical frequency comb using spontaneous parametric down-conversion in a dispersion-engineered thin-film lithium niobate resonator spanning 30-THz bandwidth and 600 comb lines at 50-GHz mode spacing.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2022.fth5c.3

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