International Photonics and Optoelectronics Meetings

Photonic Chip Based Quantum Information Processing

Chunle Xiong, Alex S. Clark, Matthew J. Collins, Isabella H. Rey, Thomas F. Krauss, Benjamin J. Eggleton

Published Jan 1, 2012• 0 citations

Abstract

We report our progress on quantum information processing on an ultra-compact silicon photonic crystal platform. We achieved correlated photon-pair generation with a coincidence to accidental ratio as high as 130 in a 196 µm-long waveguide.

DOI: 10.1364/iont.2012.if1a.2

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