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British and Irish Conference on Optics and Photonics (BICOP)

Towards Quantum Networking with Reconfigurable Double Injection Microring Resonator Sources

Sanna Al-Abdally, Weijie Nie, B.D.J. Sayers, John G. Rarity, Imad I. Faruque, Siddarth Koduru Joshi

Published Jan 1, 2025• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate spectro-temporal entanglement in a silicon double injection microring resonator using stimulated emission tomography. We achieve reconfigurable Joint Spectral Amplitudes, and discuss potential applications for future quantum networks.
DOI
10.1364/bicop.2025.w2a.4

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