We predict theoretically a regime of photon-pair generation driven by the interplay of multiple bound states in the continuum resonances in nonlinear metasurfaces. This nondegenerate photon-pair generation is derived from the hyperbolic topology of the transverse phase matching and can enable orders-of-magnitude enhancement of the photon rate and spectral brightness, as compared to the degenerate regime. We show through comprehensive simulations that the entanglement of the photon pairs can be tuned by varying the pump polarization, which can underpin future advances and applications of ultracompact quantum light sources. |
1.IntroductionMetasurfaces (MSs) offer an ultracompact and versatile platform for enhancing nonlinear optical processes, including harmonic generation and frequency mixing.1,2 To realize such nonlinear interactions in bulk crystals and waveguides, one requires extended propagation distances, but in MSs a strong enhancement of light–matter interactions can be achieved with subwavelength thicknesses through the excitation of high-quality factor optical resonances. Notably, this can be facilitated by designing Bound State in the Continuum (BIC) resonances,3–7 which support a high confinement of the optical field within the nonlinear material.8–10 In addition to classical frequency mixing, nonlinear MSs can also, through Spontaneous Parametric Down-Conversion (SPDC), generate entangled photons with a strong degree of spatial coherence.11 SPDC in carefully engineered MSs has the potential to drive fundamental advances in the field of ultracompact multi-photon sources12 that operate at room temperature, which are suitable for integration in end-user devices with applications that include quantum imaging13 and free-space communications.14 Traditionally, SPDC is performed in bulk nonlinear crystals with dimensions up to centimeters in length, while integrated waveguides have enabled a reduction of the footprint to millimeter15 and down to length scales.16 At the subwavelength scale, generation of photon pairs was reported experimentally from a single AlGaAs nanoresonator17 and lithium niobate MSs,18 and studies were also conducted on monolayers of ,19 carbon nanotubes,20 and directional emission from nanoresonators.21 Importantly, SPDC in ultrathin nonlinear layers22–24 can give rise to strong spatial correlations and allow quantum state engineering without the constraints of longitudinal phase matching. It has been proposed that a so-called “accidental” BIC at the pump frequency can increase the photon rate at a single nanoresonator,25 while a photonic crystal slab with a BIC resonance can enhance SPDC in a monolayer of ,26 although the theoretically estimated rate was still much lower than with conventional sources. There is now strong interest in new concepts and practical approaches for even stronger enhancement of the brightness of SPDC photon-pair generation in subwavelength scale structures. In this theoretical paper, we present a general approach for orders-of-magnitude enhancement of the photon-pair generation rate and spectral brightness in nonlinear MSs. We reveal, for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, that nondegenerate SPDC efficiency can be dramatically increased when the signal and idler photons are supported by BIC resonances at different frequencies. We demonstrate how these features can be realized in practice by engineering the symmetry of the MS to deliver a projected spectral brightness five orders of magnitude higher than for an unpatterned film. Our results are fundamentally different from the recently demonstrated SPDC generation using linear MS-lenses that engineer the quantum state by focusing the pump at multiple spots in a bulk crystal.27 2.Principles and MethodsWe demonstrate that a MS with reduced global rotational symmetry allows much greater flexibility in tailoring the dispersion from several BICs, in which the signal and idler photons are generated. Consequently, we can control the form of the transverse phase matching for SPDC according to the energy and momentum conservation, as illustrated in Fig. 1(a): where the indices refer to pump (), signal (), and idler () photons with the corresponding frequencies . The wave-vectors define the propagation directions in free space, and indicates the transverse components in the plane of the MS. We note that the photon polarization weakly affects phase matching (see Sec. S6 in the Supplementary Material).We focus on a MS with symmetry and outline other possibilities in Sec. S2 in the Supplementary Material. According to our concept, we designed a MS composed of a square array of cylinders with two holes, or ghost oligomers, inserted to remove the 90-deg rotational symmetry [Fig. 1(b)]. This structure supports multiple extended photonic-crystal-like BICs,3 where the field localization arises from a mismatch between the symmetry of the collective modes and the available radiation channels. We consider resonators made of , which possess strong quadratic nonlinearity and can be manufactured with established procedures. We chose a (111) crystal orientation, as it provides the best off-BIC conversion efficiency in the normal propagation direction (see Sec. S3 in the Supplementary Material) and hence gives a better measure of the enhancement due to the BIC. In our modeling, we have omitted a substrate to focus on the generic features (see Sec. S1 in the Supplementary Material for details on the simulation methods). Adding a substrate will convert the BICs to quasi-BICs, due to the up/down asymmetry introduced. But as we discuss in the following, the photon generation is associated with quasi-BICs formed by off-normal angles, thus confirming that the ideal BICs with formally infinite quality factors are not required. We therefore conclude that a strong enhancement will still be achieved when a substrate is present. Our general approach can also be applied to MSs made of different nonlinear materials, including lithium niobate, where efficient classical frequency conversion has been demonstrated.28–30 An important feature of BICs is that changes in the dimensions of the meta-atoms will not destroy a photonic-crystal like BIC so long as the relevant symmetry is maintained. This enables simultaneous tuning of the resonant frequencies for several BICs by adjusting the design parameters, such as the separation between the hole pairs, as shown in Fig. 1(c). By shifting the position of the holes, the proportion of the electric field within these two low refractive index regions changes, which in turn changes the energy of the modes. The way in which each mode is affected depends on the profile of the mode over the region through which the holes move. Similar configurability is found with the other dimensions of the meta-atoms. This tunability offers an important advantage with SPDC generation when compared to using so-called accidental BICs31 in individual nanoresonators, which only appear at very specific resonator dimensions. The dispersion of the two BICs studied in this paper is shown in Fig. 1(d), which, importantly, have opposite dispersion. Their mode profiles are shown in Figs. 1(e) and 1(f), where the fields are normalized to the peak value inside the resonator for each BIC. They are also marked and in Fig. 1(c), where the dotted line shows the value of the gap used in the two-BIC study. The single BIC study uses BIC [Fig. 1(e)] with a gap of 52 nm, which gives a good separation from the other BICs. 3.Results3.1.Single BICAs a first study, we present an analysis of SPDC with the signal and idler photons being generated at a single BIC. We calculated the SPDC generation rate via the quantum-classical correspondence between SPDC and sum frequency generation (SFG),11,17,32,33 which is exact in the absence of other nonlinear effects. We performed full SFG numerical simulations and used these results to predict the efficiency of quantum photon-pair generation through SPDC: where is the zeroth order far-field SFG intensity, and and are the incident signal and idler intensities. For SPDC calculations, we take the small angle approximation, where in the far-field the component is zero, so the and notations indicate the polarization primarily along the and axes, respectively. The solid line in Fig. 2(a) shows the results of such modeling.We then confirmed that the SPDC generation is approximately proportional to the product of the maximum intensity of the signal and idler electric fields inside the resonator. We present a typical dependence of this quantity near a BIC resonance, obtained from linear simulations, with the dashed line in Fig. 2(a), where there is a slightly off-normal signal and idler (), and the pump wavelength is . We can see that the shapes of solid and dashed lines match closely. This is a physically important observation, as it means that the designed MS optimally translates the BIC enhancement of the signal and idler to a corresponding increase of SPDC. We conducted studies of the intensity enhancement for different angles of and . The simulated intensities are fitted to a Lorentzian function (see Sec. S5 in the Supplementary Material), and, from this fitted function, we calculate where is the ratio of the SFG zeroth diffraction order far-field intensity to the product of the maximum signal and idler intensities inside the resonator (see Sec. S4 in the Supplementary Material). The sum is taken over all polarization combinations of horizontal () and vertical () for the signal and idler, which forms the polarization basis for our wavefunction. The total photon pair generation rate across all angles and wavelengths can then be calculated via where is the total sample area, and is the incident pump intensity.If we only integrate Eq. (5) over frequency, then we will obtain the pair-rate as a function of the signal wavevector, as seen in Figs. 2(c) and 2(d). Figure 2(c) has a pump wavelength at which the transverse phase matching condition occurs at the point, and Fig. 2(d) has , which was chosen for illustrative purposes. Note that the pair-rate falls off near the point, as symmetry protected BICs have singularities at the point. We therefore only see enhancement in the off-, quasi-BIC regime. In Fig. 2(d), the dashed white line shows the angle in -space at which the transverse phase matching condition occurs, which matches the peak in generation as expected. By then integrating over -space, we obtain the total photon-pair generation rate as a function of the pump wavelength, as shown with a solid line in Fig. 2(b). Notably, the peak does not occur at the point but just beyond it, as can be seen by comparing this plot with the dashed line showing the value of at the transverse phase matching condition when . This, again, is due to the singularity at the point. We calculate the theoretical peak brightness of this quasi-BIC to be over a 1.3-nm bandwidth, which is that of simulations of an unpatterned nonlinear film. 3.2.Two BICsNext, we studied the case where the signal and idler are generated at two different BICs. The most distinguishing feature here is the occurrence of hyperbolic transverse phase matching, as shown in Fig. 3(a), calculated according to the right-hand side of Eq. (2) for the normally incident pump with . The condition for the pump wavelength of is shown by the dotted white line in Figs. 1(d), 3(a), and 3(d). For the two-BIC case, in Fig. 3(c), we show the angular dependence in -space of the photon-pair generation when transverse phase matching occurs at the point, and, in Fig. 3(d), the case in which . As before, there is a peak in generation at the transverse phase matching condition (dashed white line). In Fig. 3(b), we see that the photon-pair generation rate is almost two orders of magnitude higher than for the single BIC case in Fig. 2(b). A factor of 6 of the enhancement can be attributed to different mode profiles and their overlap (see Sec. S4 in the Supplementary Material). Importantly, an order-of-magnitude increase is due to hyperbolic phase matching, whereby SPDC enhancement occurs for a much broader range of transverse photon wavevectors, in contrast to the single BIC case with elliptical phase matching only allowing a small range of wavevectors close to the point. We calculated the theoretical peak brightness to be over a 1.2-nm bandwidth, which is that of simulations for an unpatterned nonlinear film. Such predicted brightness enhancement is also much stronger than for MSs based on Mie-like resonances.18 3.3.EntanglementWe determined the polarization entanglement of the generated signal and idler by performing a Schmidt decomposition (see Sec. S7 in the Supplementary Material), where the Schmidt number indicates no entanglement and maximum entanglement. In Fig. 4(a), we show that for the single BIC case the entanglement peaks at when the azimuthal angle of the signal-photon emission is , and the pump is horizontally polarized. The maximally entangled signal and idler pair states or are visualized in Fig. 4(b). For the two-BIC case, we can switch from full to no entanglement by changing the linear polarization of the pump [see Figs. 4(c) and 4(d)]. 4.DiscussionThe two elliptic paraboloids in Fig. 1(d) can only sum to a hyperbolic paraboloid because the MS lacks in-plane rotational symmetry. The symmetry of the MS means that the BICs must have an elliptic paraboloid dispersion near the point, as that matches the rotation and mirror symmetries of the MS. In our case, and are the major and minor axes, but a set of axes can always be chosen such that the dispersion is of the form where . The transverse phase matching condition, for a pump with normal incidence, is thus given by which can be either an elliptic or hyperbolic paraboloid, with the latter enabling enhanced photon-pair generation, as discussed above. In contrast, for an MS with symmetry (such as a slab with a square array of single holes), and , which excludes a hyperbolic type of transverse phase matching.We note that the symmetry properties enabling hyperbolic transverse phase matching will also hold when taking into account a MS substrate, as the presence of a substrate will convert the BICs at the point into quasi-BICs, and the dominant emission of the photon pairs occurs in the off (off-normal) direction in the quasi-BIC regime in any case, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3. These results suggest that strong SPDC enhancement will still persist in the presence of a substrate. The influence of experimental imperfections on the other hand depends on their type. If the dimensions of the nanostructures, for example, the hole sizes, are varied equally in the whole MS, then the BIC states will remain, and the SPDC enhancement will be preserved, usually at slightly shifted wavelengths similar to the dependencies shown in Fig. 1(c). On the other hand, the random deviations in individual unit cells that effectively break the periodicity could lead to significant deterioration of the quality-factors, since the extended BIC states are based on resonances across multiple nanoresonators. Accordingly, for the best SPDC enhancement, it would be most important to maintain consistent periodic nanopatterning over the whole spatial extent of the MS. Additionally, the MS dimensions should be sufficiently large, with tens or hundreds of periods in each spatial direction, to avoid limitations on the resonance factor.6,34 These conditions can be achieved with the state-of-the-art nanofabrication facilities. For example, ultra-high factors of over 10,000 in dielectric MSs were reported for extended BICs.6 5.ConclusionWe have developed a method of enhanced photon-pair generation via symmetry protected BICs in nonlinear MSs, which are designed to realize a hyperbolic transverse phase matching condition. In terms of the brightness of the photon pair-generation, our nanoscale platform provides five orders of magnitude improvement over unpatterned films. Additional benefits are the tunability of the photon wavelengths and the degree of polarization entanglement. We anticipate that these predictions can stimulate significant experimental advances in miniaturized quantum light sources based on ultrathin nonlinear MSs for fundamental research and applications. AcknowledgmentsThe authors would like to thank Jihua Zhang for the useful discussions and comments. We would like to acknowledge the support by the Australian Research Council (Nos. DP190101559, CE200100010, and FT170100331). A. M. and G. D. V. would like to acknowledge the support of the European Union Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme through the METAFAST project (Grant No. 899673). The authors declare no conflicts of interest. 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BiographyMatthew Parry received his bachelor’s degree from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. He is a PhD student at the Australian National University (ANU). His research interests are in metasurfaces, especially with respect to quantum applications. He is a member of SPIE. Andrea Mazzanti received his MSc degree in engineering physics from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2017 and his PhD in 2021. His research interests include the design and modeling of optical metastructures for a variety of nanophotonic applications, such as nonlinear frequency generation, plasmonic nanoheater aggregates assisted drug delivery, and all-optically controllable dielectric metasurfaces. Alexander Poddubny received his PhD from Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia, in 2008 and became a professor of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2018. He is an Australian future fellow at the ANU and a senior researcher at the Ioffe Institute. His current research interests include quantum optics, many-body physics, and optomechanics. Giuseppe Della Valle is a professor in the Physics Department of the Politecnico di Milano, where he teaches courses of general physics, nano-optics, and plasmonics. His research activity is devoted to both theoretical and experimental research in physics and optics, with particular interest to the development of innovative photonic structures at the micro- and nanoscale for the generation and coherent control of light. Dragomir N. Neshev is a professor in physics at the ANU and the director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Transformative Meta-Optical Systems (TMOS). He has worked in the field of optics at several research centers and joined the ANU in 2002. His activities span over several branches of optics, including periodic photonic structures, singular optics, plasmonics, and optical metasurfaces. Andrey A. Sukhorukov is a professor at the Research School of Physics of the ANU. He leads a research group on nonlinear and quantum photonics, targeting the fundamental aspects of miniaturization of optical elements down to micro- and nanoscale. In 2015, he was elected a fellow of The Optical Society for contributions to nonlinear and quantum integrated photonics, including frequency conversion and broadband light manipulation in waveguide circuits and metamaterials. |