Linran Fan is an Assistant Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his B.S. in Physics from Peking University in 2011, and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Yale University in 2017. He worked as a postdoc at the California Institute of Technology in 2018. He joined the Wyant College of Optical Sciences at the University of Arizona as an assistant professor in August 2018. He moved to the University of Texas at Austin in 2023. His research interests focus on nonlinear interactions between optical photons, superconducting circuits, electron spins, and acoustic waves at the quantum level in a hybrid system of novel integrated devices and materials. Target applications include photonic information processing, communication, and precision measurement enhanced by quantum information science. His research has been recognized by multiple awards including the most recent Sloan Fellowship and Google Research Scholar Award.
Presentation Title:
Scalable Generation of Squeezed Light: From Device to Application
Presentation Abstract:
Squeezed light is one critical quantum resource widely used in quantum information applications. Significant progress has been made in using squeezed light in quantum communications, metrology, and computing. In this talk, I will present our recent effort in developing scalable squeezed light sources based on thin-film lithium niobate integrated photonics. We will present the first work on the generation of squeezed light with parametric down-conversion on integrated photonic platforms. We will further discuss the record-breaking performance in thin-film lithium niobate waveguides for nonlinearity efficiency and parametric gain. In the end, we will show the application of squeezed light in quantum communication and network systems.