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Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

High CAR and low g(2)(0) of 1.55 µm entangled photon-pairs generated by a silicon microring resonator

Chaoxuan Ma, Malhar Jere, Xiaoxi Wang, Shayan Mookherjea

Published Jan 1, 2018• 1 citation
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Abstract

Silicon microring photon-pair and heralded single-photon generation is reported with a spectral brightness of 1.6×108 pairs/s/GHz/mW2, achieving record CAR > 12,000 and heralded second-order self-correlation g(2)(0) < 0.006. Franson interferometry was used to verify time-energy entanglement.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_qels.2018.fth1g.4

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