Generating broadband optical squeezing via Cascaded Micro-Ring Resonators

Abstract:Broadband squeezed light functioning as a Markovian reservoir can exponentially enhance light-matter interactions, benefiting quantum technologies. However, conventional single-cavity sources face a trade-off between squeezing depth and spectral bandwidth. We propose a scalable scheme for generating broadband squeezed vacuum using a cascade of parametric microring resonators coupled to a common bus waveguide. By analyzing the output, we identify the specific conditions that yield a broad, flat-topped squeezing spectrum, even under realistic intracavity pump attenuation. We demonstrate that this architecture is robust against fabrication imperfections, including inhomogeneous resonator frequencies and component failures. We show that the flat-topped spectrum converges to the Markovian limit significantly faster than a single-cavity Lorentzian profile. An array of as few as $N=5$ coupled resonators with an intrinsic loss ratio of $\kappa_I/\kappa = 0.1$ reduces the required bandwidth to a quarter of that needed by a single cavity to achieve same squeezing. This rapid convergence relaxes the low-$Q$ and high-gain constraints of single broadband cavities, distributing the squeezing process across moderately pumped resonators to provide a practical route for engineering squeezed reservoirs on mature integrated photonic platforms.

arXiv:2607.28493 [quant-ph]

(or arXiv:2607.28493v1 [quant-ph] for this version)

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