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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), 2014 Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Jose, CA
