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Silicon Photonic Crystal Cavities for Spontaneous Four-Wave Mixing

Andrea Barone, Thanavorn Poempool, Marco Clementi, Alessandro Marcia, Marco Liscidini, Daniele Bajoni, Dario Gerace, Thomas Fromherz, Mattéo Galli

Published Jan 1, 2022• 0 citations
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Abstract

We report the generation of nonclassical states of light through parametric fluorescence in a silicon photonic crystal cavity with equally spaced resonances in energy. The time correlation of photon pairs is confirmed by coincidence measurements.
DOI
10.1364/np.2022.npth1f.4

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