Four-wave mixing and generation of correlated photon pairs in silicon ring resonators and photonic molecules

Stefano Azzini, Davide Grassani, Michael John Strain, Philippe Velha, Marc Sorel, L. G. Helt, John E. Sipe, Dario Gerace, Marco Liscidini, Mattéo Galli, Daniele Bajoni

Published Jan 1, 2013• 1 citation

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Abstract

We study, both theoretically and experimentally, emission of correlated photon-pairs by spontaneous four-wave-mixing in silicon integrated resonators. We show that the number of generated pairs in the quantum experiment is predicted by a classical experiment.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2013.qth1e.3

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