Slow-light enhanced correlated photon pair generation in a silicon photonic crystal waveguide

C. Xiong; Christelle Monat; Alex S. Clark; Christian Grillet; Graham D. Marshall; M. J. Steel; Juntao Li; Liam O'Faolain; Thomas Fraser Krauss; John G. Rarity; Benjamin J. Eggleton

doi:10.1364/OL.36.003413

Slow-light enhanced correlated photon pair generation in a silicon photonic crystal waveguide

C. Xiong, Christelle Monat, Alex S. Clark, Christian Grillet, Graham D. Marshall, M. J. Steel, Juntao Li, Liam O'Faolain, Thomas Fraser Krauss, John G. Rarity, Benjamin J. Eggleton

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We report the generation of correlated photon pairs in the telecom C-band at room temperature from a dispersion-engineered silicon photonic crystal waveguide. The spontaneous four-wave mixing process producing the photon pairs is enhanced by slow-light propagation enabling an active device length of less than 100 mu m. With a coincidence to accidental ratio of 12.8 at a pair generation rate of 0.006 per pulse, this ultracompact photon pair source paves the way toward scalable quantum information processing realized on-chip. (C) 2011 Optical Society of America

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	3413-3415
Number of pages	3
Journal	Optics Letters
Volume	36
Issue number	17
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1364/OL.36.003413
Publication status	Published - 1 Sept 2011

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OSIRIS: EU FP7 Marie Curie 'OSIRIS'
Krauss, T. F. (PI)
European Commission
1/09/09 → 31/08/11
Project: Standard
UK Silicon Photonics EP/F001622/1: UK Silicon Photonics
Krauss, T. F. (PI)
EPSRC
1/06/08 → 31/05/13
Project: Standard

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Slow-light enhanced correlated photon pair generation in a silicon photonic crystal waveguide

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