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Domain-engineered Thin-film Lithium Niobate for Frequency-multiplexed Photon-pair Generation

Jiayu Yang, C. J. Xin, Amirhassan Shams‐Ansari, Shengyuan Lu, Neil E. Sinclair, Marko Lončar

Published Jan 1, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract

The ferroelectric domains of thin-film lithium niobate are structured for multi-wavelength nonlinear optical frequency conversion. We target frequency-multiplexed photon-pair generation, in which we show conditions for five pair sources (purity > 90%) in a single waveguide.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_fs.2024.ff2k.7

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