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Photon Pairs from Resonant Metasurfaces

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Santiago-Cruz, Tomás, Fedotova, Anna, Sultanov, Vitaliy, Weissflog, Maximilian A., Arslan, Dennis, Younesi, Mohammadreza, Pertsch, Thomas, Staude, Isabelle +2 more·2021·Nano Letters
DOI 10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c01125PMC PMC8289292
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All-dielectric optical metasurfaces are a workhorse in nano-optics, because of both their ability to manipulate light in different degrees of freedom and their excellent performance at light frequency conversion. Here, we demonstrate first-time generation of photon pairs via spontaneous parametric-down conversion in lithium niobate quantum optical metasurfaces with electric and magnetic Mie-like resonances at various wavelengths. By engineering the quantum optical metasurface, we tailor the photon-pair spectrum in a controlled way. Within a narrow bandwidth around the resonance, the rate of pair production is enhanced up to 2 orders of magnitude, compared to an unpatterned film of the same thickness and material. These results enable flat-optics sources of entangled photons-a new promising platform for quantum optics experiments.

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  • All-dielectric metasurfaces exhibit much lower loss and higher damage thresholds compared to plasmonic counterparts.

    “all-dielectric metasurfaces exhibit much lower loss and higher damage thresholds”

    From Inverse Design of an All-Dielectric Nonlinear Polaritonic Metasurface. (2025) · cites this paper as [10]

    The Introduction says all-dielectric metasurfaces are favorable for photon-pair generation because of their high damage threshold. It does not state that their losses are much lower, or compare either property with plasmonic metasurfaces. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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Santiago-Cruz, T., Fedotova, A., Sultanov, V., Weissflog, M. A., Arslan, D., Younesi, M., Pertsch, T., Staude, I., Setzpfandt, F., & Chekhova, M.
Affiliations
  • Max Planck Institute for the Science of Light, Staudtstraße 2, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
  • Friedrich Schiller University Jena (DE)
  • Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (DE)
  • Max Planck School of Photonics (DE)
  • Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering (DE)
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Venue
Nano Letters
Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)
Published
2021-05-10
Volume
21
Issue
10
Pages
4423-4429
ISSN
  • 1530-6984 (ISSN-L)
  • 1530-6992
DOI
10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c01125
PMC
PMC8289292
OpenAlex
W3160473369
Cited by
191
References
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  • Nano Letters (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Publikationsdatenbank der Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) (submittedVersion)
  • Fraunhofer-Publica (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst Kairo
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (398816777-SFB1375, 429529648, IRTG 2101, PE 1524/10-1, PE1524/13-1, SE 2749/1-1, STA 1426/1-1, STA 1426/2-1)
  • Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft
  • Thuringian State Government (ACP2020)
  • Federal Ministry of Education and Research (03ZZ0434, 13N14147, 13N1487)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials › Metamaterials and Metasurfaces Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Quantum Information and Cryptography
  • Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics › Photorefractive and Nonlinear Optics
Keywords
photon pair generation, spontaneous parametric down-conversion, dielectric metasurfaces, lithium niobate, Mie resonance, electric and magnetic resonances, entangled photons, flat optics

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