• DocumentCode
    1625417
  • Title

    Heralded single photons from silicon coupled-resonator optical waveguides

  • Author

    Ong, Jun Rong ; Davanco, Marcelo ; Shehata, Andrea Bahgat ; Tosi, Alberto ; Agha, Imad ; Assefa, Solomon ; Xia, Fengnian ; Green, William M J ; Srinivasan, Kartik ; Mookherjea, Shayan

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA, USA
  • fYear
    2012
  • Firstpage
    3
  • Lastpage
    5
  • Abstract
    We leverage the high spontaneous four-wave-mixing nonlinearity (γ≈4150/W·m) of silicon coupled-resonator optical waveguides to demonstrate a telecommunications-band, heralded single photon source. The generated light is antibunched with g(2)(0) ≈ 0.19 ±0.03 at low power.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; multiwave mixing; optical resonators; optical waveguides; photon antibunching; silicon; Si; antibunched light; heralded single photon source; silicon coupled-resonator optical waveguides; spontaneous four-wave-mixing nonlinearity; telecommunication-band; Nonlinear optics; Optical device fabrication; Optical fibers; Photonics; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Diego, CA
  • ISSN
    1949-2081
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4577-0826-8
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/GROUP4.2012.6324067
  • Filename
    6324067
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1625417