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Photonic-wire bonded pump reject and tunable wavelength demultiplexer using contra-directional couplers for a silicon micro-ring resonator photon-pair source

Abdelrahman E. Afifi, Malcolm Haynes, Sudip Shekhar, Lukas Chrostowski, Jeff F. Young

Published Jan 1, 2024• 1 citation
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Abstract

A wavelength demultiplexer and pump-reject circuit using three contra-directional couplers is integrated with a silicon micro-ring resonator and connected using photonic wire bonds that achieve a pair-generation rate of 13 kHz and CAR of 320.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_fs.2024.ftu3o.1

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