High efficiency frequency doubling in fully diced LiNbO3ridge waveguides on silicon
Nonlinear periodically poled ridge LiNbO3 waveguides have been fabricated on silicon substrates. Components are carved with only the use of a precision dicing machine without the need for grinding or polishing steps. They show efficient second harmonic generation at telecommunication wavelengths with normalized conversion reaching 204%/W in a 15 mm long device. The influence of the geometrical non uniformities of waveguides due to fabrication processes is asserted. Characteristics of the components are studied; notably their robustness and tunability versus temperature.
Z+/Z− lithium niobate optical waveguide sensitivity related to pyroelectric effect
Lithium niobate crystal is widely used for the design and fabrication of integrated electro-optic modulators. As a ferroelectric material, one sees its spontaneous polarization change with temperature variations. This phenomenon, known as the pyroelectric effect, induces strong waveguide transmission variations for waveguides realized on Z -cut wafers. Waveguides made by titanium in-diffusion either on the Z + or Z − side of the crystal show a significant difference in temperature behavior. Experimental data, enlightened by numerical simulations, help to show why Z − waveguides are more immune to temperature changes than Z + ones.
Entangled photons through thick scattering media: experiments and comparison with simulations of the biphoton wave function
International audience; We report experimentally and numerically quantum correlations imaging through thick random media. We demonstrated that spatial correlations between twin photon are still detected but no in form of two-photon speckle-like patterns.
Temporal ghost imaging with photon pairs
International audience; We present an experiment of temporal ghost imaging based on the spatial properties of twin photons. The retrieval of a binary time signal of 8 bits is performed with an error rate of 0.70%.
Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox in single pairs of images
Spatially entangled twin photons provide a test of the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen (EPR) paradox in its original form of position (image plane) versus impulsion (Fourier plane). We show that recording a single pair of images in each plane is sufficient to safely demonstrate an EPR paradox. On each pair of images, we have retrieved the fluctuations by subtracting the fitted deterministic intensity shape and then have obtained an intercorrelation peak with a sufficient signal to noise ratio to safely distinguish this peak from random fluctuations. A 95% confidence interval has been determined, confirming a high degree of paradox whatever the considered single pairs. Last, we have verified that th…