Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Heralded single photons from a silicon nanophotonic chip

Jun Rong Ong, Marcelo Davanço, Andrea Bahgat Shehata, Alberto Tosi, Imad H. Agha, Solomon Assefa, Fengnian Xia, Yurii A. Vlasov, William M. J. Green, Kartik A. Srinivasan, Shayan Mookherjea

Published Jan 1, 2012• 1 citation

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Abstract

A highly nonlinear (γ≈3700/W·m) silicon coupled-resonator-optical-waveguide generated heralded single photons (g(2)(0) ≤ 0.19 ±0.03) and widely-spaced photon pairs with coincidences-to-accidentals ratio >10 (cw) and >23 (pulsed), and outperformed a 54x longer silicon nanophotonic waveguide.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_si.2012.cth3m.6

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