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On-Chip Heralded Single Photon Source with Demultiplexing and Pump Filtering

Nicholas C. Harris, Christophe Galland, Daniele Bajoni, Mihir Pant, Davide Grassani, Tom W. Baehr-Jones, Michael Hochberg, Dirk Englund

Published Jan 1, 2014• 1 citation
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Abstract

We demonstrate an on-chip source of correlated photons with spatial demultiplex-ing of signal and idler photons via ring resonators and with pump suppression greater than 60 decibels.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2014.fth3a.8

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