• DocumentCode
    1770603
  • Title

    Proposal for a single-photon silicon device based on the unconventional photon blockade

  • Author

    Flayac, Hugo ; Gerace, Dario ; Savona, Vincenzo

  • Author_Institution
    Inst. of Theor. Phys., Ecole Polytech. Fed. de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    8-13 June 2014
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    2
  • Abstract
    We demonstrate that the unconventional photon blockade can produce single photons under pulsed excitation at high repetition rates. Our proposal relies on two coupled photonic crystal cavities and on the Kerr nonlinearity of silicon.
  • Keywords
    elemental semiconductors; optical Kerr effect; optical resonators; photon counting; photonic crystals; silicon; Kerr nonlinearity; Si; coupled photonic crystal cavities; pulsed excitation; repetition rates; single-photon silicon device; unconventional photon blockade; Cavity resonators; Nonlinear optics; Optical resonators; Photonics; Proposals; Quantum mechanics; Silicon;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    San Jose, CA
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    6989008
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1770603