Time-resolved characterization of pulsed squeezed light from a strongly driven silicon nitride microresonator
arXiv:2510.04300 · doi:10.1103/37rx-fzfp
Abstract
Silicon nitride microresonators driven by strong pump pulses can generate squeezed light in a dominant spectral-temporal mode, a central resource for continuous-variable quantum computation. In the high parametric gain regime, several effects, including self- and cross-phase modulation as well as time-ordering corrections, become significant and can degrade source performance. In this work, we comprehensively investigate the generation of squeezed light from a silicon nitride resonator under pulsed pumping, spanning from low to high parametric gain up to 16 photons/pulse. We experimentally study how the average photon number and the first- and second- order correlations of the squeezed marginal modes evolve with increasing pulse energy, across various frequency detunings and pulse durations. Furthermore, we analyze the errors introduced by multi-pair emissions in estimating the joint temporal intensity via time-resolved coincidence measurements. We propose and demonstrate an error-correction strategy based on the marginal distributions of time-resolved multi-photon events. Our results provide a practical strategy for optimizing the gain and the temporal mode structure of pulsed squeezed light sources in microresonators, elucidating the physical mechanisms and limitations that govern source performance in the high gain regime.
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