IEEE International Conference on Group IV Photonics (GFP)

Generating photon pairs using silicon photonics

Ranjeet Kumar, Jun Rong Ong, Marc Savanier, Shayan Mookherjea

Published Aug 1, 2014• 0 citations

Abstract

Silicon photonic waveguides and resonators fabricated using CMOS-compatible processes can generate photon pairs at telecommunications wavelengths and at room temperature, with electrically controllable properties e.g., tunable frequency-bin entangled comb and tunable joint spectral intensity.

DOI: 10.1109/group4.2014.6961957

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