Photon-pair generation with a 100 nm thick carbon nanotube film

Abstract

Nonlinear optics based on bulk materials is the current technique of choice for quantum-state generation and information processing. Scaling of nonlinear optical quantum devices is of significant interest to enable quantum devices with high performance. However, it is challenging to scale the nonlinear optical devices down to the nanoscale dimension due to relatively small nonlinear optical response of traditional bulk materials. Here, correlated photon pairs are generated in the nanometer scale using a nonlinear optical device for the first time. The approach uses spontaneous four-wave mixing in a carbon nanotube film with extremely large Kerr-nonlinearity (≈100 000 times larger than that of the widely used silica), which is achieved through careful control of the tube diameter during the carbon nanotube growth. Photon pairs with a coincidence to accidental ratio of 18 at the telecom wavelength of 1.5 μm are generated at room temperature in a ≈100 nm thick carbon nanotube film device, i.e., 1000 times thinner than the smallest existing devices. These results are promising for future integrated nonlinear quantum devices (e.g., quantum emission and processing devices).

Publication DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201605978
Divisions: College of Engineering & Physical Sciences
Additional Information: © 2017 The Authors. Published by WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
Uncontrolled Keywords: carbon nanotubes,four-wave mixing,nonlinear optics,photon pairs,Materials Science(all),Mechanics of Materials,Mechanical Engineering
Publication ISSN: 1521-4095
Last Modified: 11 Mar 2024 08:17
Date Deposited: 15 May 2017 13:45
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PURE Output Type: Article
Published Date: 2017-06-27
Published Online Date: 2017-04-24
Accepted Date: 2017-02-22
Submitted Date: 2016-11-05
Authors: Lee, Kim Fook
Tian, Ying
Yang, He
Mustonen, Kimmo
Martínez, Amós
Dai, Qing
Kauppinen, Esko I.
Malowicki, John
Kumar, Prem
Sun, Zhipei

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