Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics

Mid infrared heralded single photons on a silicon chip

Stefano Signorini, Sara Piccione, Giorgio Fontana, Lorenzo Pavesi, Mher Ghulinyan, Martino Bernard, Georg Pucker

Published Jan 1, 2020• 1 citation

Abstract

Despite the large interest in developing mid infrared quantum photonics, an integrated source of single photons beyond 2 um is still missing. Here, we demonstrate the first mid infrared heralded single photon source based on silicon photonics.

DOI: 10.1364/cleo_qels.2020.ftu4c.5

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