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arXiv:2404.03986

Effect on spectral purity due to on-chip temporal manipulation of the pump

Lukas Rodda, Ben M. Burridge, Jorge Barreto, Imad I. Faruque

Published Apr 5, 2024• 0 citations
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Abstract

Photonic Integrated Circuits (PIC)s are a promising contender for quantum information technologies. The spectral purity of photons is one of the key attributes of PIC photon-pair sources. The dual-pulse pump manipulation technique [1] showed >99% purity in ring-resonator photon-pair sources. Here, we have developed a PIC to shape a pulse into dual, triple and quadruple pulses and investigated the effect of these pump pulse configurations on the purity. Our results show that more complex configurations over dual-pulse do not result in comparatively higher purity but allow accurate control over choosing arbitrary values of the purity.

DOI
10.48550/arxiv.2404.03986

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