Enhanced Tunable Photon Pair Generation from Nonlinear Metasurface with Guided-Mode Cavity
arXiv:2505.15026 · doi:10.1103/p1wr-98wx
Abstract
The ability to generate quantum entangled photon pairs through spontaneous parametric down conversion (SPDC) is playing a pivotal role in many applications in quantum technologies, including quantum communications, quantum computation, and quantum imaging. Metasurfaces, two-dimensional arrays of nanostructures with subwavelength thickness, have recently shown extraordinary capability in manipulating classical and quantum states of light and realizing miniaturized SPDC sources. Whereas previous studies have primarily focused on periodic metasurfaces, we uncover the potential of spatially modulated nanopatterns for further SPDC enhancement and state engineering. Specifically, we propose a nonlinear metasurface featuring a lateral guided-mode cavity formed by two distributed Bragg reflectors. With the quasi-normal mode theory, we predict an SPDC rate up to 157 Hz/mW, which represents about 30 times rate enhancement when compared to the metasurface without a cavity. Furthermore, the cavity supports a continuous set of high-Q resonances across a broad bandwidth, allowing the all-optical tuning of the photon-pair emission directions transverse to the cavity by controlling the pump wavelength, which can find applications in quantum imaging.
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