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Silicon-chip source of bright photon pairs

Jiang, Wei C. and Lu, Xiyuan and Zhang, Jidong and Painter, Oskar and Lin, Qiang (2015) Silicon-chip source of bright photon pairs. Optics Express, 23 (16). pp. 20884-20904. ISSN 1094-4087. doi:10.1364/OE.23.020884. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20130122-101619108

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Abstract

Integrated quantum photonics relies critically on the purity, scalability, integrability, and flexibility of a photon source to support diverse quantum functionalities on a single chip. Here we report a chip-scale photon-pair source on the silicon-on-insulator platform that utilizes dramatic cavity-enhanced four-wave mixing in a high-Q silicon microdisk resonator. The device is able to produce high-quality photon pairs at different wavelengths with a high spectral brightness of 6.24×10^7 pairs/s/mW^2/GHz and photon-pair correlation with a coincidence-to-accidental ratio of 1386 ± 278 while pumped with a continuous-wave laser. The superior performance, together with the structural compactness and CMOS compatibility, opens up a great avenue towards quantum silicon photonics with capability of multi-channel parallel information processing for both integrated quantum computing and long-haul quantum communication.


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http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.4455v1arXivDiscussion Paper
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Painter, Oskar0000-0002-1581-9209
Alternate Title:A silicon-chip source of bright photon-pair comb
Additional Information:© 2015 Optical Society of America. Received 19 Apr 2015; accepted 16 Jul 2015; published 31 Jul 2015. The authors would like to thank Chris Michael for his help during the initial stage of this project. This work was supported in part by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research under grant No. FA9550-12-1-0419 and by the National Science Foundation under grant ECCS-1351697. It was performed in part at the Cornell NanoScale Facility, a member of the National Nanotechnology Infrastructure Network.
Group:Institute for Quantum Information and Matter
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Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR)FA9550-12-1-0419
NSFECCS-1351697
Issue or Number:16
Classification Code:OCIS codes: (130.3120) Integrated optics devices; (140.3948) Microcavity devices; (190.4380) Nonlinear optics, four-wave mixing; (270.0270) Quantum optics
DOI:10.1364/OE.23.020884
Record Number:CaltechAUTHORS:20130122-101619108
Persistent URL:https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20130122-101619108
Official Citation:W. Jiang, X. Lu, J. Zhang, O. Painter, and Q. Lin, "Silicon-chip source of bright photon pairs," Opt. Express 23, 20884-20904 (2015)
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Deposited By: Joy Painter
Deposited On:22 Jan 2013 19:04
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