Frontiers in Optics

Ultra-Bright Photon-Pair Generation on a Silicon Chip

Wei C. Jiang, Xiyuan Lu, Jidong Zhang, Oskar J. Painter, Qiang Lin

Published Jan 1, 2012• 1 citation

Abstract

We report a monolithic source of photon-pair combs on a silicon chip, achieving an unprecedented coincidence-to-accidental ratio of 1386 ± 278 and a spectral brightness 3 orders higher than any source demonstrated up to date.

DOI: 10.1364/fio.2012.fw6c.10

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