Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

High-Purity Heralded Single Photons on a Silicon Chip

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

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations

Abstract

We report a silicon-chip source of heralded single photons with extremely high quality, achieving a low conditional photon autocorrelation, gc(2) (0), of 0.0059±0.0016. The gc(2) (0) remains below 0.06 for photon flux up to 6.4 × 105 pair/s.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2013.qth5b.2

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High-Purity Heralded Single Photons on a Silicon Chip

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

Published Jan 1, 2013• 0 citations

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Abstract

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2013.qth5b.2

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We demonstrate a silicon-chip biphoton source with an unprecedented quantum cross correlation up to

{\rm g_{si}^{(2)}(0) = (2.58 \pm 0.16) \times 10^4}

. The emitted biphotons are intrinsically single-mode, with self correlations of

{\rm g_{ss}^{(2)}(0) = 1.90 \pm 0.05}

and

{\rm g_{ii}^{(2)}(0) = 1.87 \pm 0.06}

for signal and idler photons, respectively. We observe the waveform asymmetry of cross correlation between signal and idler photons and reveal the identical and non-exponential nature of self correlations of individual signal and idler photon modes, which is a nature of cavity-enhanced nonlinear optical processes. The high efficiency and high purity of the biphoton source allow us to herald single photons with a conditional self correlation

\rm g_{c}^{(2)}(0)

as low as

\rm 0.0059 \pm 0.0014

at a pair flux of

\rm 1.95 \times 10^5

pairs/s, which remains below

\rm 0.026 \pm 0.001

for a biphoton flux up to

\rm 2.93 \times 10^6

pairs/s, with a photon preparation efficiency in the single-mode fiber up to 51%, among the best values that have ever been reported. Our work unambiguously demonstrates that silicon photonic chips are superior material and device platforms for integrated quantum photonics.