Hidden and detectable squeezing from micro-resonators

Élie Gouzien , Laurent Labonté (1) , Alessandro Zavatta (2) , Jean Etesse (1) , Sébastien Tanzilli (1) , Virginia d'Auria (1) , Giuseppe Patera (3)

1 INPHYNI - Institut de Physique de Nice
2 INO-CNR - Istituto Nazionale di Ottica [Firenze]
3 PhLAM - Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules - UMR 8523

In the context of quantum integrated photonics, this work investigates the quantum properties of light generated by silicon and silicon nitride micro-resonators pumped in pulsed regime. The developed theoretical model, performed in terms of the morphing supermodes, provides a comprehensive description of the generated quantum states. Remarkably, it shows that a full measurement of states carrying optimal squeezing levels is not accessible to standard homodyne detection, thus leaving hidden part of generated quantum features. By presenting and discussing this behaviour, as well as possible strategies to amend it, this work proves itself essential to future quantum applications exploiting micro-resonators as sources of multimode states.

Mots clés: Quantum optics; Squeezing; Microresonators; Four wave mixing FWM; Ultrafast Optics; Nonlinear optics NLO; Integrated photonics; Quantum optics

Domaines: Optique [physics.optics]; Optique [physics.optics]

Élie Gouzien, Laurent Labonté, Alessandro Zavatta, Jean Etesse, Sébastien Tanzilli, et al.. Hidden and detectable squeezing from micro-resonators. 2022. ⟨hal-03709164⟩