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Towards superradiant spontaneous four wave mixing in an array of silicon microresonators

Massimo Borghi, Federico Andrea Sabattoli, Houssein El Dirani, Laurène Youssef, Camille Petit-Étienne, E. Pargon, Corrado Sciancalepore, John E. Sipe, Amideddin Mataji‐Kojouri, Marco Liscidini, Mattéo Galli, Daniele Bajoni

Published Jan 1, 2023• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate cooperative spontaneous four wave mixing in an array of silicon resonators, in which the photon pair generation rate is enhanced with respect to the incoherent sum of the rates of the individual emitters.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2023.jth2a.42

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