Frontiers in Optics

Nanophotonic Devices and Quantum Frequency Conversion

Kartik A. Srinivasan, Serkan Ateş, Imad H. Agha, Marcelo Davanço, Yuxiang Liu, Matthew T. Rakher

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations

Abstract

We describe different experiments demonstrating quantum frequency conversion of single photons produced by a quantum dot, and present efforts at developing new frequency converters using four-wave-mixing and cavity optomechanics in the Si3N4 platform.

DOI: 10.1364/fio.2013.fm4d.2

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