80 Channel Photon Pair Source from a Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Racetrack Microresonator

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16575v1
• Date: Sat, 18 Jul 2026 01:20:20 GMT
• Title: 80 Channel Photon Pair Source from a Thin-Film Lithium Niobate Racetrack Microresonator
• Abstract summary: X-cut thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) stands out for its strong second-order optical nonlinearity.<n>We demonstrate a photon pair source on X-cut TFLN with 80 measured photon pair channels spanning the C and L optical bands.
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• Abstract: Nanophotonic platforms have multiple properties and features desirable for producing correlated photon pairs. In these platforms, spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC) and spontaneous four-wave-mixing (SFWM) have been used to achieve photon pair production. By placing the nonlinear region in a resonant cavity, the source obtains an enhanced nonlinear interaction and naturally filters out photons by frequency according to the cavity linewidth. Among various platforms, X-cut thin-film lithium niobate (TFLN) stands out for its strong second-order optical nonlinearity ($χ^{(2)}$) and access to a strong platform for modulating light. Although previously demonstrated, present sources are limited in their photon pair channel availability, limiting the potential of quantum applications in quantum information processing, communication, and sensing that can scale in robustness by having access to multiple photon pair channels. To this end, we demonstrate a photon pair source on X-cut TFLN with 80 measured photon pair channels spanning the C and L optical bands with a frequency spacing of 49.5 GHz between photons. We characterize the second-order correlation function and pair generation rate (PGR) of 80 channels, the highest number of channels demonstrated to date, and achieve a pair generation of 125.7 kHz / μW after accounting for the cavity's escape efficiency. We also demonstrate heralded single photon operation by calculating a heralded auto-correlation dip of 0.0544 $\pm$ 0.0054 with 2.2 mW of on-chip pump power. These findings demonstrate the promise of X-cut TFLN as a strong platform for quantum optical applications.

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