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IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics (GFP)

Polarization-entangled photon pair source on a chip

Nobuyuki Matsuda, Hanna Le Jeannic, Hiroshi Fukuda, Tai Tsuchizawa, Koji Yamada, 康弘 都倉, Hiroki Takesue

Published Aug 1, 2012• 0 citations
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Abstract

We present a polarization-entanglement source integrated on a chip. The device consists of two nonlinear silicon wire waveguides connected by a silicon-wire polarization rotator. A maximally entangled state was obtained with a fidelity of 91%.
DOI
10.1109/group4.2012.6324154

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