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Actively Tunable Heralded Photon-Pair Source on a Silicon-on-Insulator Platform

Sujith Chandran, Jaideep Singh, Rodrigo Piera, Karen Sloyan, James A. Grieve

Published Jan 1, 2026• 0 citations
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Abstract

We demonstrate a high-performance SOI-based heralded photon-pair source with tunable pair-generation rate, achieving a coincidence-to-accidental ratio (CAR) of ∼ 38000, heralded self-correlation g H (2) (0)~10 −3 , and a raw coincidence rate of 43 kHz.
DOI
10.1364/cleo_at.2026.jtu.55

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