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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Joint Spectral Intensity of 1.55 μm photon-pairs generated by Si microrings

Shayan Mookherjea, Marc Savanier, Nikhil Mathur

Published Jan 1, 2017• 0 citations
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Abstract

The two-photon spectrum of photon pairs generated at room-temperature in optically-pumped silicon microrings was measured using tunable filters, InGaAs single-photon avalanche detectors and deconvolution, and an image-processing artifact-reduction algorithm is discussed.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2017.fw4e.2

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