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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Group IV Photonics (GFP), 2012 IEEE 9th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4577-0826-8
DOI :
10.1109/GROUP4.2012.6324067
