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Advanced Photonics

Generating a Frequency-Bin Entangled Comb of Photon Pairs via Four-Wave Mixing in a Silicon-on-Insulator Microring Resonator*

Jun Chen, Zachary H. Levine, Jingyun Fan, Alan L. Migdall

Published Jan 1, 2011• 1 citation
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Abstract

We present a quantum theory for generation of frequency-bin entangled comb of photon pairs via four-wave mixing in a Silicon-on-Insulator microring resonator. We also provide design principles of such a microring through extensive numerical simulations.
DOI
10.1364/iprsn.2011.iwd5

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