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Generation of Entangled Squeezed Light in a Multimode Coupled-Cavity Photonic Crystal

Dylan van Eeden, Marc M. Dignam

Published Jan 1, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present a design for a photonic crystal coupled-cavity system to generate entangled two-mode squeezed states of light on-chip and model it with a basis of non-orthogonal leaky quasi-modes to account for scattering loss.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2024.jw2a.87

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